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Read this excerpt from “L’Allegro” by John Milton. Which two lines are written in iambic pentameter?

[Hence loathed Melancholy], [Of Cerberus, and blackest Midnight born,]
In Stygian cave forlorn,
['Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy;]
Find out some uncouth cell,
[Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings,]
[And the night-raven sings;]

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