Question

Analyze the stanza from Lewis Carroll's "You Are Old, Father William" poem and determine which metrical foot Carroll uses. "You are old, Father William," the young man said, "And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your head - Do you think, at your age, it is right?" 
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Answer 1

Answer:

The metrical foot Carroll uses in the poem is ANAPESTIC.

Explanation:

The metrical foot Lewis Carroll uses in the "You Are Old, Father William" poem is ANAPESTIC. Anapest is a poetic device defined as a metrical foot of three syllables in a line of a poem wherein the first two syllables are short and unstressed, followed by a third syllable that is long in quantitative meter and stressed in accentual meter.