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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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User Myon
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b. trochaic tetrameter is the correct answer
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User CloudPotato
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Answer:

a

Step-by-step explanation:

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User Davor Mlinaric
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