Most common in english poetry would be the iambic meter
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The War of the Worlds chronicles the events of a Martian invasion as experienced by an unidentified Male narrator and his brother.The story begins a few years before the invasion. During the astronomical opposition of 1894, when Mars is closer to earth than usual, several observatories spot flashes of light on the surface of Mars. The narrator witnesses one of the flashes through a telescope at an observatory in Ottershaw, Surrey, England. He immediately alerts his companion, Ogilvy, "the well know astronomer". Olgivy quickly dismisses the idea that the flashes are an indication of life on mars. He assures the narrator that "the chances against anything man like on mars are one in a million". the flashes continue unexplained for several nights.
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