Feet, in poetry, are the patterns of stress in the syllables used.
For example, a foot can be:-
an iamb, which is a short syllable followed by a long one (de-dum), or
a trochee, which is a long syllable followed by a short one (dum-de), or
an amphibrach, which is a long syllable between two short ones ((de-dum-de), or a number of other combinations that each have their own names.
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