Determine the correct number of feet per line in each of the excerpts.
Tell me not, in mournful numbers
(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “A Psalm of Life”)
That I may rise and stand, o’er throw me, and bend
(John Donne, Holy Sonnet 14)
I stand, and look,
And stoop, and drink
(Thomas Hardy, “The Robin”)
Nor any other wold like Cotswold euer sped,
So faire and rich a Vale by fortuning to wed.
(Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion: “The Fourteenth Song”)
Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;
(A. E. Housman, “A Shropshire Lad” XIII)
diameter (two feet)
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trimeter (three feet)
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tetrameter (four feet)
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pentameter (five feet)
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hexameter (six feet)