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Read the excerpt from “The Song of Hiawatha” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. ---Ye who love the haunts of Nature, Love the sunshine of the meadow, Love the shadow of the forest, Love the wind among the branches, Which lines in this excerpt use four sets of trochee? line 2 line 3 all 4 lines line 1

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the correct answer is - all 4 lines

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The correct answer to which lines in this excerpt of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Song of Hiawatha" use four sets of trochee is C) All four lines.

In fact, "The Song of Hiawatha" is a perfect example of trochaic tetrameter. This concept refers to a line with four trochaic feet: a stressed or long syllable followed by an unstressed or short syllable. Actually, providing that English poetic tradition is mostly iambic instead of trochaic, it makes trochaic meter sound weird.

In the mentioned excerpt, if we highlight the stressed syllables to show the trochaic tetrameter, this would be the result:

YE who LOVE the HAUNTS of NAture

LOVE the SUNshine OF the MEAdow

LOVE the SHAdow OF the FOrest

LOVE the WIND aMONG the BRANches.

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