Select the correct answer.
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what meter is used in this excerpt from a. e. housman's "a shropshire lad"?
when i was one-and-twenty
i heard a wise man say
a
trochaic trimeter (the foot has a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. this pattern repeats three times in each
line.)
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b.
iambic trimeter (the foot has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. this pattern repeats three times in each line.)
c.
anapestic trimeter (the foot has two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. this pattern repeats three times in each
line.)
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od.
dactylic trimeter (the foot has a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables. this pattern repeats three times in each
line.)