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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Act II

Read the passage from The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Act II.

Romeo. And stay, good nurse, behind the abbey wall.
Within this hour my man shall be with thee
And bring thee cords made like a tackled stair.

Which word from these lines contains a stressed syllable in a metrical foot?
A. good
B. this
C. man
D. made

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C. "man"

The lines are in iambic meter; in "Within this hour my man shall be with thee" the stress falls on "man" (my MAN), so "man" contains a stressed syllable in a metrical foot.