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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