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Determine the poetic meter of the following line of poetry: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary. Determine the poetic meter of the following line of poetry: Once upon a midnight
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Determine the poetic meter of the following line of poetry:

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.


Determine the poetic meter of the following line of poetry:

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.


a)Iambic Octameter

b)Trochaic Octameter

c)Iambic Pentameter

d)Dactylic Heptameter

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Answer:

Trochaic octameter .

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Rest part of the line

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume forgotten lore.

Option B is correct

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