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Read the line of poetry and label it as either iambic, dactylic, trochaic, or anapestic. Identify the ending of the line as feminine or masculine.


For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams

Ending: .

Verified Answer :

It's iambic and masculine.
The line is trochaic tri-meter (3 trochaic feet) is feminine because it ends on an un-emphasized beat.
Those words are the rhythm and emphasis.

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Answer:

"For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams." is anapestic, and masculine ending.

Explanation:

Anapestic is a kind of metrical foot which consists of three syllables, two unstressed and then one stressed, or in other words, two short syllables followed by a long one. Then we can determine whether an ending is feminine or masculine according to the stress it has, If the line ends on a stressed syllable, the line is considered masculine.

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