Rhythm In Poetry

Rhythm refers to the pattern of sounds made by varying the stressed and
unstressed syllables in a poem.

Cadence (The measure or beat of a rhythmical flow)

Polysyllabic (More than three syllables

There are five basic rhythms in English poetry:

Iambic/iamb (made up of units of : one stressed syllable and one unstressed syllable
Trochaic/trachee (made up of units of: one unstressed stressed and one stressed syllable
Spondaic/spondee (made up of units of: two unstressed syllables, or / /)
Anapestic/anapest (made up of units of: two stressed syllables and one unstressed
Dactylic/dactyl (made up of units of: one unstressed syllable and two stressed syllables

Each of these units is called a foot. For example, one iamb or iambic foot is x/. If a line has 10
syllables and they are all arranged in iambic units, then the line has 5 feet. This specific rhythm is
called iambic pentameter, and was popularized by Shakespeare.
Important Terms:

Rhythm is a sound pattern (a beat) using one or more kinds of meter.

Meter refers to the number of feet of a specific kind in a line of poetry.
A Foot is the measurement for one unit of poetry (usually two- three
syllables)

Different meters in Poetry

1 Monometer
2 Dimeter
3 Trimeter
4 Tetrameter
5 Pentameter
6 Hexameter
7 Heptameter
8 - Octameter