Identify the type of poetic foot used in each excerpt. iambic
trochaic
anapestic
dactylic
By the shores of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,

(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
“Hiawatha’s Childhood”)

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I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

(William Wordsworth, “I Wandered
Lonely as a Cloud”)

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“Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!” he said.

(Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The
Charge of the Light Brigade”)

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The volcanoes are dim, and the
stars reel and swim,
When the whirlwinds my
banner unfurl.

(Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Cloud” )

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On november 17, 1968, football fans across the united states sat glued to their televisions. a close game between two top teams—the new york jets and the oakland raiders—was being broadcast. when the jets pulled ahead with only fifty seconds remaining, viewers went wild. but then, just as the raiders were bringing the ball across midfield, the game disappeared from the screen! in its place, a previously scheduled children's movie, heidi, started playing. callers flooded the tv network's phone lines, but it was too late. the raiders scored two touchdowns in the very final moments—touchdowns that were unseen by all but west coast viewers. as a result of the interrupted event, dubbed "the heidi game," television networks began delaying their regularly scheduled programs until football games had ended.