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I really don't understand rhythm i.e patterns of stress and metre?

I'm analysing the first four stanzas of Blake's 'The Little Girl Lost' but really don't understand how to work out the pattern of rhythm. :frown: How do I work out where it's stressed and what this means for the syllables? Apparently it alternates between iambic and trochaic but I'm not sure which lines are iambic and which are trochaic. :s-smilie:

Please help!

In futurity
I prophesy
That the earth from sleep
(Grave the sentence deep)

Shall arise, and seek
For her Maker meek;
And the desert wild
Become a garden mild.

In the southern clime,
Where the summer's prime
Never fades away,
Lovely Lyca lay.

Seven summers old
Lovely Lyca told.
She had wandered long,
Hearing wild birds' song.
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