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Read this excerpt from The Iliad.

The trembling priest along the shore return'd,

And in the anguish of a father mourn'd

Disconsolate, not daring to complain,

Silent he wander'd by the sounding main;

Till, safe at distance, to his god he prays,

the god who darts around the world his rays.


How many feet are there in total?

@brendonpryor

I think it is 10?

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brendonpryor

i want to say 
six
but i am not certain but i heavily feel like it is six
Foot

Definition:

No toes, no shoes, no soles. In literary circles, this term refers to the most basic unit of a poem's meter.

A foot is a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables. There are all kinds of feet in poetry, and they all sound different, so we'll give you a handy list. If you want to be the nerdiest nerd in the nerd herd, you should memorize it:

Iamb: daDUMTrochee: DUMdaSpondee: DUMDUMAnapest: dadaDUMDactyl: DUMdadaAmphibrach: daDUMdaPyrrhic: dada

A combination of feet makes up a line of meter. So, for example, the most common meter in English poetry is iambic pentameter, which contains five (that's where that "pent-" comes from) iambs, all in a row.

Finding your feet can be as tricky as learning the Viennese waltz, but that's the main task of scansion, a fancy term for analyzing a poem's meter. Just remember the list above, and read aloud, read read aloud.

neXet

It is 6.

Because the poem Iliad that is wrtitten by Homer is made out if six feet.

Here's proof from my lesson ;)

The Iliad has a rhythm created by a rhyme scheme. It is made up of feet. Homer wrote the original text in dactylic hexameter (12 syllables/6 feet)

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