The most common type of poetic line in both American and British poetry has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable and occurs five times in a line. It is known as

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The most common type of poetic line in both American and British poetry has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable and occurs five times in a line. It is known as