How do you read read rhythm and meter in poetry?

For many, difficulty can be found in judging a poem's rhythm and meter and the siginificance of it. In a line of verse rhythm is simply patterns of stresses, in that you stress some syllables and don't with others. Most poems are made up of metrical feet which are the individual rhyming units that help to build meter. 

Examples of common feet follow;

- Dactyl, which is a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones such as the word "typical".

- Iamb. an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one such as found in "belong".

- Trochee, which would be a stressed syllable then an unstressed one that words such as "double" for example. 

Most poets will string their poem along in a repetition of one of these forms:

1 Foot - Monometer

2 Feet - Dimeter

3 Feet- Trimeter

4 Feet - Tetrameter

5 Feet - Pentameter

6 Feet - Hexameter

Knowing these terms isn't enough however, it's important to read as much poetry as you can so that you can pick up on meter and rhythm much more easily.