Meter

Meter: the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

ex: Daily, daily, / sing to Mary,

Sing my soul her praises due:

All her feasts, her / actions honor,

With the heart's devotion true.

Now in wond'ring / contemplation,

Be her majesty confessed;

Call her Mother / call her Virgin,

Happy Mother, Virgin blest.

Significance: Meter gives rhymes to a poem and makes it sound like a song.