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Read the first line from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s "The Pslam of Life." What is the meter of this line from the poem?

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,


A.

trochaic tetrameter

B.

iambic pentameter

C.

iambic dimeter

D.

dactylic trimeter

E.

anapestic hexameter

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3 votes

Answer:

D

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User Joshmmo
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I think the answer is D. Dactylic trimeter
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