This document provides information about Shakespeare's use of meter, feet, and other poetic devices. It defines meter as the basic rhythmic structure of a poetic line containing a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. It describes the six main types of feet - iambic, anapestic, trochaic, dactylic, spondaic, and pyrrhic - used to form lines of varying lengths from one to seven feet. It gives an example of iambic pentameter, the meter used in Shakespeare's blank verse.