Looking at Rhythm and Meter in Poetry

Rhythm is the pattern of stresses in a line of verse. When you speak, you stress some syllables and leave others
unstressed. When you string a lot of words together, you start seeing patterns. Rhythm is a natural thing. It's in
everything you say and write, even if you don't intend for it to be.

Traditional forms of verse use established rhythmic patterns called meters (meter means "measure" in Greek),
and that's what meters are — premeasured patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Much of English poetry is written in lines that string together one or more feet (individual rhythmical units). Feet
are the individual building blocks of meter. Here are the most common feet, the rhythms they represent, and an
example of that rhythm.

 Anapest: duh-duh-DUH, as in but of course!

 Dactyl: DUH-duh-duh, as in honestly

 Iamb: duh-DUH, as in collapse

 Trochee: DUH-duh, as in pizza

To build a line of verse, poets can string together repetitions of one of these feet. Such repetitions are named as
follows:

 1 foot: monometer

 2 feet: dimeter

 3 feet: trimeter

 4 feet: tetrameter

 5 feet: pentameter

 6 feet: hexameter

E.G:

X \ X \ X \ X \

Good afternoon, Sir Smasham Uppe

X \ X \ X \ X \

We’re having tea: do take a cup

So, In Sir Smasham Uppe, the pattern is iambic tetrameter