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Using the method of scansion, match each poetry excerpt to the correct rhythm and meter. trochaic octameter (The foot has a
stressed syllable followed by an
unstressed syllable. This pattern
repeats eight times in each line.)
iambic pentameter (The foot has
an unstressed syllable followed by
a stressed syllable. This pattern
repeats five times in each line.)
iambic heptameter (The foot has
an unstressed syllable followed
by a stressed syllable. This pattern
repeats seven times in each line.)
dactylic tetrameter (The foot has a
stressed syllable followed by two
unstressed syllables. This pattern
repeats four times in each line.)
O could I feel as I have felt, or be what I have been

(Lord Byron, “Youth and Age”)

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

(Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven”)

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Just for a handful of silver he left us

(Robert Browning, “The Lost Leader”)

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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

(William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18)

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