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ACTIVITY: What's the Meter?
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Identify the poetic meter used in the given excerpts, and specify a word or set of words
in the excerpt that exemplifies the poetic foot used. Describe the effect created by the
chosen poetic meter.
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1. You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
from "Oh, The Places You'll Go" by Dr. Seuss
2. That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now.
from "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning​