What is Meter (poetry)?
In poetry, '''meter''' ([[British English]] spelling: '''metre''') means the [[rhythm]]ic patterns in a [[Verse (poetry)|verse]]. ==Fundamentals== The units of poetic meter, like [[rhyme]], vary from language to language and between poetic traditions. They can involve arrangements of syllables into repeated patterns called ''[[foot (prosody)|feet]]'' within a line. English meter is founded on the patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables. In Latin and Greek verse, on the other hand, while the metrical units are similar, not syllable [[stress (linguistics)|stresses]] but [[syllable length]]s are the component parts of meter. [[Category:Poetry]] {{lit-stub}}