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Metre – number of feet in a line of poetry 

Like a 1 metre length, which has 3.28 feet, metre in poetry is the number of feet in each line.

Metre is 3.26 feet of writting

Metre is the number of feet in a line of poetry.

A metre creates rythm

The foot creates a rhythm made up of a set of large hits (stressed) and/or soft hits (unstressed). 

NOTE:

Avoid if you can the word “beats” when it comes to poetry, otherwise it gets very, very confusing.

Types of metre

Metre is the number of feet used in each line.

There are names for the different number of feet in a line:

There are many types of meter with how many described infront

 

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