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WGU poetry Examples of meters and feet

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Iambic foot   show
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show PROB lem  
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show un der STAND  
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Dactylic foot   show
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Spondaic foot   show
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show in the  
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show To be or not to be, that is the question  
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iambic hexameter   show
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show The score stood four to six with but an inning left to play.  
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trochaic octameter   show
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iambic pentameter   show
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iambic tetrameter   show
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iambic trimeter   show
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dactylic dimeter   show
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show Workers earn it  
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show When the dark  
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trochaic monometer   show
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Iambic pentameter   show
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Iambic tetrameter   show
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show one GIRL  
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show PIping DOWN the VALleys WILD  
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Trochaic dimeter   show
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show twas the NIGHT before CHRISTmas and ALL through the HOUSE  
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Anapestic trimeter   show
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Dactylic tetrameter   show
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show ababcdcdefefgg  
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Italian Sonnet   show
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