The primary feet used in poetry are:
(NOTE: v = unaccented, ^ = accented)
Iambic: v^
Anapestic: vv^
Trochaic: ^v
Dactylic: ^vv
The substitutive feet are:
Spondaic: ^^
Pyrrhic: vv
The different line lengths are:
One foot: Monometer
Two feet: Dimeter
Three feet: Trimeter
Four feet: Tetrameter
Five feet: Pentameter
Six feet: Hexameter
Seven feet: Heptameter
Eight feet: Octameter
For example:
v ^ v ^ v ^ v ^ v ^
“Among all lovely things my Love had been”
-William Wordsworth
This line is in iambic pentameter because it is five iambic (v^) feet.