A meter in poetry is basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in a verse. A foot is a metrical unit that generates a line of verse.
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In poetry, a meter refers to the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of verse, while a foot is the basic building block of meter, typically consisting of one stressed syllable and one or more unstressed syllables. Meters are categorized by the number of feet in a line (e.g. iambic pentameter has five feet per line), while feet are the individual units that make up these patterns.