Feet and Meter in Poetry

What feet is present in the line below?

In the DARK of the NIGHT, he aROSE with a CRY.

• IAMB

• TROCHEE

• ANAPEST

• DACTYL

1. The WIND was HOWling THROUGH the SIlent NIGHT.
Identify the FEET.

• IAMB

• TROCHEE

• DACTYL

• ANAPEST

1. The WIND was HOWling THROUGH the SIlent NIGHT.
Identify the meter.

• PENTAMETER

• TETRAMETER

• HEXAMETER

• TRIMETER

What is the meter in this line?

"BRIGHT stars, SHINing IN the SKY so WIDE."

• TRIMETER

• TETRAMETER

• PENTAMETER

• HEXAMETER

What is the metrical pattern in this line?
unDER the MOONlight they WANDered aLONE.

• IAMBIC PENTAMETER

• TROCHAIC PENTAMETER

• IAMBIC TETRAMETER

• TROCHAIC TETRAMETER

Which of the following is an example of an iamb?

• TAble

• deCIDE

• BEAUtiFUL

• RUNning

What is the pattern of an anapestic foot?

• ˘ ´

• ´ ˘

• ˘ ˘ ´

• ´ ˘ ˘

Which line best represents trochaic meter?

• She will walk along the road.

• Golden sunlight warms the air.

• In the silence of the night.

• And the thunder shook the sky.

A dactyl is a metrical foot made of:

• One stressed and one unstressed syllable

• Two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed one

• One stressed followed by two unstressed syllables

• Two stressed syllables in a row

Which of these lines is an example of anapestic trimeter?

• LOUD were the sounds of the RAIN on the ROOF.

• in the BLINK of an EYE it was GONE

• TELL me not IN mournful NUMbers.

• SINGing sweet MELOdies UNder the STARS.