how many feet are in each line of i wandered lonely as a cloud
four
To find the number of feet in each line of the poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth, you would need to analyze the poem's structure and meter. Meter refers to the rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" follows a specific meter known as iambic tetrameter. In this meter, each line consists of four iambs, where an iamb is a metrical foot consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.
Let's take a look at the first line of the poem:
"I wandered lonely as a cloud"
Breaking it down into syllables and noting the stress, we get:
"I" (unstressed) - "wan" (stressed) - "dered" (unstressed) - "lone" (stressed) - "ly" (unstressed) - "as" (stressed) - "a" (unstressed) - "cloud" (stressed)
So, the first line of the poem has four metrical feet, each consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. Hence, there are four feet in the first line of "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud."
By analyzing the rest of the poem's lines in a similar manner, you can determine the number of feet in each line.