Properly mark the metrical feet (stressed and unstressed syllables) in the following line of poetry.

Go and catch a falling star

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Louis Black

27 June, 06:15

Properly mark the metrical feet (stressed and unstressed syllables) in the following line of poetry.

Go and catch a falling star

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Reed Campbell · Answer 1

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Go and catch a falling star

The words or syllables in bold are stressed, and the other ones are unstressed.

It is a trochaic tetrameter. A trochaic foot consists of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one, this pattern is repeated four times in tetrameters.

Properly mark the metrical feet (stressed and unstressed syllables) in the following line of poetry.Go and catch a falling star

Properly mark the metrical feet (stressed and unstressed syllables) in the following line of poetry.

Go and catch a falling star