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The Agony of the Feet: A Refined Way to Waste Time

 When you fill in blanks in this game, the number of syllables per word, and the ways in which these syllables are accented, is key.  Please use this as a reference, in case you’ve forgotten this stuff:

  • Iambic: destroy
  • Anapestic: intervene
  • Trochaic: topsy
  • Dactylic: merrily
  • Spondaic: hum drum
  • If there’s no mention of feet (i.e., no “iambic” or “trochaic,” etc.), then the word must be monosyllabic.
  • Note also that “verb ending in -ed” simply means “past tense verb.” 

Here are the templates.  Click on one of them; fill in the blanks; then see what you’ve got: