2. The following line is an example of which meter? 
	The curfew tolls the knell of parting day

  1. iambic tetrameter
  2. iambic pentameter
  3. trochaic tetrameter
  4. dactyllic pentameter
  5. trochaic pentameter
  6. anapestic tetrameter
  7. anapestic pentameter
  8. dactyllic tetrameter

4 is WRONG.

To hear dactyls would mean hearing it as "THE cur few | TOLLS the knell | OF part ing | DAY" -- which is absurd and which in any case has only four heavy stresses so can't be pentameter.

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