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| 109261711 | anapest | a metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllables | 0 | |
| 159553994 | dactyl | a three-syllable foot consisting of a heavy stress and two light stresses | 1 | |
| 586913707 | dimeter | a line containing only two metrical feet | 2 | |
| 822341581 | double dactyl | a comic verse written with two quatrains with each line written in dactylic dimeter | 3 | |
| 876894850 | hendecasyllabic | a verse of eleven syllables | 4 | |
| 160570536 | heptameter | a line consisting of seven metrical feet | 5 | |
| 430686690 | hexameter | a line consisting of six metrical feet | 6 | |
| 55690749 | iamb | a unit or foot of poetry that consists of a lightly stressed syllable followed by a heavy stressed syllable | 7 | |
| 138700565 | meter | a recognizable though varying pattern of stressed syllables alternating with syllables of less stress | 8 | |
| 115878665 | monometer | a rare form of verse in which each line consists of a single metrical unit (a foot or dipody) | 9 | |
| 639206924 | octameter | a line that consists of eight metrical feet | 10 | |
| 509540425 | pentameter | a line that consists of five metrical feet | 11 | |
| 443924952 | rhythm | the varying speed, loudness, pitch, elevation, intensity, and expressiveness of speech, especially poetry | 12 | |
| 801857393 | scansion | the act of "scanning" a poem to determine its meter | 13 | |
| 640189841 | spondee | a metrical foot consisting of two successive strong beats | 14 | |
| 77827169 | tetrameter | a line consisting of four metrical feet | 15 | |
| 373474871 | trimeter | a line consisting of three metrical feet | 16 | |
| 559329936 | trochee | a two syllable unit or foot of poetry consisting of a heavy stress followed by a light stress | 17 |
