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30 December, 00:53

What is the dominant meter of the following lines from John Milton's "Paradise Lost"?

"Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste

Brought death into the World, and all our woe,

With loss of Eden, till one greater Man"

dactylic

iambic

trochaic

anapestic

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  1. 30 December, 03:42
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    The correct answer is 'iambic', because it is characterized by the sequence of unstressed and stressed syllables (unaccented and accented), and there are 10 syllables in each line.
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