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What kind of metrical foot accounts for the majority of Wendy Cope's "Emily Dickinson" (quoted in its entirety below)? Higgledy-piggledy Emily Dickinson Liked to use dashes Instead of full stops. Nowadays,
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What kind of metrical foot accounts for the majority of Wendy Cope's "Emily Dickinson" (quoted in its entirety below)? Higgledy-piggledy Emily Dickinson Liked to use dashes Instead of full stops. Nowadays, faced with such Idiosyncrasy, Critics and editors Send for the cops.

A. Dactyl
B. Spondee
C. Lamb
D. Troche

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Answer:A. Dactyl

Explanation:A dactyl is a metrical foot which possesses a single stressed syllable that is followed by two syllables which are unstressed.

An example would be these two words “typical” and “elephant” they both shows us the dactylic stress pattern. ...

A dactyl is diffrent from an anapest, which contains two unstressed syllables that comes before a stressed syllable.

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