lit - rhythm and meter

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um the title says it all ig...tbh i have no idea how to do the types of feet but ill try, ok??

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rhythm
the regular repetition of sound in music or poetry
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meter
a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
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feet
individual pattern of measured rhythm
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scansion
the process of identifying foot and meter in a line of poetry 
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monometer
1 foot per line
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dimeter
2 feet per line
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trimeter
3 feet per line
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tetrameter
4 feet per line
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pentameter
5 feet per line
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hexameter
6 feet per line
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heptameter
7 feet per line
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octameter
8 feet per line