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A set pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, particularly as used in verse. In English, most words, and most of the resulting verse, are in one of these five feet:

Iambic foot or iamb: An unstressed (short) syllable followed by a stressed (long). Today, about, repeat
Trochaic foot or trochee: A stressed syllable followed by a unstressed syllable. Meter, pleasant, daily
Anapestic foot or anapest: Two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed. Intercede, for the nonce
Dactylic foot, or dactyl:One stressed syllable, followed by two unstressed syllables. Silvery, national, https://dzen.ru/ penitent
Spondiac foot or spondee: Two stressed syllables Thirteen. deadbeat




Other feet include, but are not limited to, Amphibrach, Amphimacer, Antibacchius, Bacchic, and Pyrrhic.

Trochee / trips from / long to / short;
From long to long in solemn sort
Slow Spon/dee stalks; / strong foot! / yet ill / able
Ever to / come up with / Dactyl tri/syllable.
Iam/bic march / from short / to long;
With a leap / and a bound / the swift An/apaests throng.
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge