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WGU poetry Examples of meters and feet

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Type
Example
Iambic foot   sug GEST  
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Trochaic foot   PROB lem  
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Anapestic foot   un der STAND  
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Dactylic foot   HEN der son  
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Spondaic foot   PEN GUIN  
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Pyrrhic foot   in the  
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iambic pentameter   To be or not to be, that is the question  
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iambic hexameter   To think how they may ache in icy hoods and mails.  
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iambic heptameter   The score stood four to six with but an inning left to play.  
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trochaic octameter   As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.  
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iambic pentameter   With loads of learned lumber in his head.  
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iambic tetrameter   They cannot know, they cannot care  
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iambic trimeter   The idle life I lead  
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dactylic dimeter   Sumersault acrobats  
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trochaic dimeter   Workers earn it  
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anapestic monometer   When the dark  
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trochaic monometer   Blend their  
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Iambic pentameter   beFORE my PEN has GLEAN'D my TEEMing BRAIN  
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Iambic tetrameter   come LIVE with ME and BE my LOVE  
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Iambic monometer   one GIRL  
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Trochaic tetrameter   PIping DOWN the VALleys WILD  
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Trochaic dimeter   SOUND the FLUTE  
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Anapestic tetrameter   twas the NIGHT before CHRISTmas and ALL through the HOUSE  
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Anapestic trimeter   just a BEER and a BOY, and i'll DANCE  
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Dactylic tetrameter   AFter the PANGS of a DESperate LOVer  
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English Sonnet   ababcdcdefefgg  
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Italian Sonnet   abbaabbacdccdc  
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