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English poetry forms an analytic survey Most poetry in English is iambic-that is, made up of divisions, or feet, that alternate an unstressed and a stressed syllable (sometimes designated by x and /, respectively) in rising rhythm (unstressed followed by stressed): "The Bustle in a House," or "We shall not want to use again." The meter of the first example is formally described as iambic trimeter (three iambic feet per line); that of the second as iambic tetrameter (four such feet per line). The most frequently used meter in English is iambic pentameter (in its unrhymed form this is called blank verse), which has five iambic feet in each line, as in the opening line of "Ode on a Grecian Urn," by English poet John Keats: "Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness." The other most common feet are two in falling rhythm, the trochee (/x) and the dactyl (/xx); and another...

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