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Question
Copy any two stanzas of the poem in the lines below. Using a coloured pen underline the stressed syllables in each line and put a stress-mark (') over each.
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Solution
Stressed words from 1st and 2nd Stanzas:
Wondrous, thought, exceedingly, queer, die, way, I
I wr'ote s'ome li'nes once a time
In w'ondrous 'merry 'mood
And thought as usual 'men wo'uld say
They were exce'eding go'od
They were so que'er, so very que'er
I la'ughed as I would d'ie
Albe'it, in the general way,
a sober man am 'I
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