Why was the meter in "Tom Deadlight" difficult to figure out? A. The sailor was experiencing partial lucidity, so it makes sense the poem should echo this.
There was no meter at all because it was a free verse poem.
The poem's meter was written in a perfect, but complex Iambic Hexameter.
The poem's meter was written in a mixture of Iambic Sextameter for the main verses and Iambic Tetrameter for any of the repeated choruses.

i have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

i do not think they will sing to me

the anwser is went creeping down the river again, across the wide lonely marshes to the sea.

i longed to go with them out into the world to seek my fortune in foreign lands—africa, india, china and peru!

and, dreaming of the lands i had never seen, i'd sit on there, watching till they were out of sight.

answer: do

the 'italicized phrase' is a noun clause that is used as a direct object.