The accented syllable may precede or follow either one or two unaccented syllables in a regularly recurring sequence throughout the line. A verse may have an unlimited number of feet. All the bones are firmly connected by tough bands of tissue called words. The verse proceeds on foot, on good footing or bad, foot by foot the verse moves. Some tenderfoot or crow s foot.
Some verses have one foot in the grave.
Some poets on poor footing. Web footed club footed barefooted hop around on one foot for an interminable time and get nowhere. The verse with its splay foot, the verse with the hot foot, light footed nimble footed with a foot in the stirrup. The sure-footed verse. When one writes verse one puts one's foot down and underfoot one may get trampled.