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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