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Dimeter- two feet

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Hexameter- six feet

Octameter- seven feet

say the word CREATE

Which syllable has the stress or accent?

creATE- which makes it...?

Iamb-

one unaccented syllable, one accented syllable

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Trochee-

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When I consider how my night is spent

from John Milton's "On His Blindness"

By a hole in the woods sat a green little boy

We romped until the pans

Slid from the kitchen shelf;

My mother's counteneance

Could not unfrown itself.

Tell me not in mournful numbers

This is the forest primeval, the murmuring pines and the hemlock

To be or not to be, that is the question

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