Victoria Coren Mitchell explained the morse feet answer on Only Connect.
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00:00 A dactyl, for example, it's when you have one stressed syllable and two unstressed,
00:04 like half a league, half a league, half a league onward.
00:07 If you translate that into Morse code, it's dash dot dot, dash dot dot, and dash dot dot would be
00:15 a d. Anapest, are you? It's dot dot dash, so the Syrian came down like a wolf on the fall,
00:22 the trochee, that's stressed then unstressed, dash dot, tiger, tiger, burning bright, and an
00:28 i am, that's you know, of man's first disobedience and the fruit, so dot dash. It's an a. It's Moor's
00:34 feet.
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