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Analyze the stanza from Lewis Carroll's \"You Are Old, Father William\" poem and determine which metrical foot did Carroll use . \"You are old, Father William,\" the young man said,. \"And your hair has become very white;. And yet you incessantly stand on your head -. Do you think, at your age, it is right?\".

a) iambic
b) trochaic
c) anapestic
d) dactylic

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The correct answer is c) anapestic

That is because each line consists of feet that have two unaccented syllables and one accented one, which makes it an anapest.
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