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Select the correct answer.
Read the following excerpt from “The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Lord Alfred Tennyson. Based on this example, what is a dactylic foot?

Half a League

A.
a foot with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
B.
a foot with a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable
C.
a foot with two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable
D.
a foot with a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables
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Half a League is a foot with a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables, i.e., option D.

What is the excerpt “The Charge of the Light Brigade” about?

A three-syllable metrical pattern involved in poetry that starts with a stressed syllable and terminates with two unstressed syllables.

An anapest is a metrical foot that comprised of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable.

According to the excerpt, half a League is a foot with a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables.

Thus, the correct option is D.

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