Monometer is a one-foot line
Dimeter is a two foot line
Trimeter is a 3 foot line
Tetrameter is a four foot line
Pentameter is a five foot line
A beat can be seen as a stress which means that the number of beats is often the same as as the number of feet.
But there are more unstressed syllables in a anapestic line than a trochiac line.
Lines with the same number of stresses have the smae number of beats despite the extra syllables.
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