Spoken English already has a rhythm — the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables that poets regularize into meter. Paste a poem (or anything) and this page scans it: stressed syllables come out longer, louder, and higher; unstressed ones stay on the chant tone; punctuation breathes and phrase-ends fall. The scansion is an honest heuristic — English is too irregular for rules to get every word right — but meter survives rough handling: you'll hear the tetrameter. Marks: ● stressed · unstressed.