What meter is used in this excerpt from a. e. housman’s “a shropshire lad”? when i was one-and-twenty i heard a wise man say a. trochaic trimeter (the foot has a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. this pattern repeats three times in each line.) b. iambic trimeter (the foot has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. this pattern repeats three times in each line.) c. anapestic trimeter (the foot has two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. this pattern repeats three times in each line.) d. dactylic trimeter (the foot has a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables. this pattern repeats three times in each line.)