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Foot of Poetry Explained: The Best Beginner’s Guide

Foot of poetry infographic explaining iambic and trochaic metrical units.

Introduction A foot of poetry is the smallest repeating unit of rhythm in a line of verse, made up of a specific pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. Poets combine several feet to build a line’s meter; for example, five iambic feet in a row create iambic pentameter, the rhythm behind most of Shakespeare’s plays. … Read more