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of stressed and unstressed syllables with greater regularity than is necessary for spoken English in general. Prosody is the science of versification that studies the laws of metre. Foot is a combination of one stressed and one or two unstressed syllables. The number of syllables to a foot may be either 2 or 3 and one of them must be stressed. Monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter (a line of ... feet) 5 major kinds of feet in English poetry: · Iambus (iambic)--1 unstressed and one stressed syllable ( ) · Trochee (trochaic)--1 stressed and one unstressed syllable ( ) · Dactyl (dactylic)--1 stressed, 2 unstressed ( ) · Amphibrach (amphibrachic)--1 unstressed, 1 stressed, 1 unstressed ( ) · Anapaest (anapaestic)--unstressed, unstressed, stressed ( ) not common