Question

Which of the following lines is the best example of dactylic meter?
Just for a handful of silver he left us/ Just for a riban to stick in his coat
Poetry begins with a lump in the throat
I wandered lonely as a cloud
Two road diverged in a wood, and I/ I took the one less traveled by

Answer 1

mark the unstressed/stress pattern. for dactylic meter you should be looking for one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables.

to help you out, I'll eliminate A (this is closer to iambic) and B (this is closer to anapest.)