sentence: English meter is founded on the patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables.
sentences_before: 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 'feet' within a line.
sentences_after: In Latin and Greek verse, on the other hand, while the metrical units are similar, not syllable stresses but syllable lengths are the component parts of meter.
concept_name: english meter
headings: Meter (poetry) Fundamentals
categories: Poetry