Scan the following poem and name the meter of the poem.I thought they loved me, did me grace To please themselves;' twas all their deed; God...

In order to determine the meter of a poem, you must first
read the lines and pay attention to which words or syllables are stressed, or ACCENTED. 
In order to do this, read aloud and listen to where the natural stresses fall; identify
the stress of multiple syllable words by using a dictionary to identify stress, or
accent.  I have bolded the stressed (accented) syllables in the lines
below:

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I thought they
loved me, did me
grace

To please
themselves; 'twas all their
deed;

God
makes, or fair, or
foul, our
face;

If
showing mine so
caused to
bleed

My
cousins' hearts,
they should have
dropped

A
word, and straight the
play had
stopped.

Once
you have the stressed, or accented, syllables marked, then you need to look for the
pattern established.  In this case, you can see the da DUM da DUM pattern.  This pattern
helps you to identify the metrical rhythm. This rhythm is called an iamb, which is an
unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.  Next you count how many
repetitions of the pattern appear in each line of the
poem.

In this case, there are 4 repetitions of iambs per
line, which means that this poem is a tetrameter: four repetitions of a patterns.  The
meter of the poem is a  two-part name created by the identification of the predominant
rhythm, which is iambs, and the number of repeated feet per line. That means this poem
is in iambic tetrameter. You can learn more about the various metrical feet by reviewing
the links below.