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A poetic foot is a basic unit of measure in poetry, with repeated sequence of meter, containing 2 or 3 stressed or unstressed syllables.  Meter is the rhythm of a poem.

These are the different types of meters:

The types of line lengths are as follows (the number of feet per line):

1. Monometer:  One Foot
2. Dimeter:  Two Feet
3. Trimeter:  Three Feet
4. Tetrameter:  Four Feet
5. Pentameter:  Five Feet
6. Hexameter:  Six Feet
7. Heptameter:  Seven Feet
8. Octameter:  Eight Feet

For example:

Iambic Pentameter (used in Shakespearean Sonnets):

Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116: 

   -       !        -      !       -      !         -        !       -         ! 

Let/ me/ not/ to/ the/ mar/riage/ of/ true/ minds  < 5 feet>

** Note:

-  Unstressed

!   Stressed

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