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octameter

8 feet per line

foot

A unit of meter; can consist of two or three syllables; lines of poetry are classified according to the number of feet in a line

iambic foot

U / ; 2 syllable foot

pyrric foot

UU ; 2 syllable foot

anapestic foot

UU/ ; 3 syllable foot

monometer

one foot per line

iambic pentameter

shakespeare's most common meter

tetrameter

4 feet per line

pentameter

5 feet per line

hexameter

6 feet per line

heptameter

7 feet per line

trochaic foot

/ U ; 2 syllable foot

spondaic foot

// ; 2 syllable foot

dactylic foot

/UU ; 3 syllable foot

trimeter

3 feet per line

meter

a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

rhymed verse

all earlier poems will be this type of verse

dimeter

two feet per line


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