At the phonological level, these languages have diverse metrical properties.  English, Greek and Russian have lexical stress, and poetic meters are generally defined in terms of the stress foot.  French is described without that concept.  Mandarin has lexical tone instead of  lexical stress, and traditional poetic meters are defined by patterns of tonal alternation.
 Other properties of poetry also differ.  English is rhymed on the last syllable, as is French, but French rhyming rules count onset consonants and the spelling of the end of the word.  Russian and Greek are rhymed from the last stressed syllable.  Rhyming in Mandarin is easier because the language has few syllables and even fewer syllable codas; tone is sometimes also part of the rhyme.
