Question: what is a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables?
Answer: Meter. The rhythmical pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse. ... Falling meter refers to trochees and dactyls (i.e., a stressed syllable followed by one or two unstressed syllables). Iambs and anapests (i.e., one or two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed one) are called rising meter.