Iambic pentameter
rhythymic poetic speech naturally falls into mostly that meter
it is the pair, the rhythm of footsteps
Dactlys are for three
but that rhythm is a quick trot or more literally musical
Speech, to be beautiful and poetic, must dance and sway and have a rhythym
but that rhytm can’t be static and never changing. It needs to have natural variations that are yet still beautiful - like nature is perfectly imperfect.
Iambic pentameter is probably closes to it - but it is iambic pentameter with variotions and flexibility
THE HEART beats in iambic pentameter
life Beats in that
A Midsummer Night's Dream, use varied meters for different characters (e.g., fairies use trochaic tetrameter).
"The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began." (Iambic tetrameter,
Mimic Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse, stressing strong beats without fixed syllable counts.
"Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?" (Alliterative, no strict IP.)