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In poetry, metre (Commonwealth spelling) or meter (American spelling; see spelling differences) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.Many traditional verse forms prescribe a specific verse metre, or a certain set of metres alternating in a particular order.
The following first verse from "The Raven" shows the use of trochaic octameter. Note the heavy use of dactyls in the second and fifth line, which help to emphasize the more regular lines, and the use of strong accents to end the second, fourth and fifth lines, reinforcing the rhyme:
Iambic pentameter (/ aɪ ˌ æ m b ɪ k p ɛ n ˈ t æ m ɪ t ər / eye-AM-bik pen-TAM-it-ər) is a type of metric line used in traditional English poetry and verse drama.The term describes the rhythm, or meter, established by the words in each line.
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Old English metre is the conventional name given to the poetic metre in which English language poetry was composed in the Anglo-Saxon period. The best-known example of poetry composed in this verse form is Beowulf, but the vast majority of Old English poetry belongs to the same tradition.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Dactylic tetrameter is a metre in poetry. [1] ... Another example from Leonard Cohen of his song "Famous ...
Common metre or common measure [1] —abbreviated as C. M. or CM—is a poetic metre consisting of four lines that alternate between iambic tetrameter (four metrical feet per line) and iambic trimeter (three metrical feet per line), with each foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
The Roman poet Catullus' poems 8, 22 and 39 serve as examples of choliambic verse. miser Catulle, dēsinās ineptīre et quod vidēs perīsse perditum dūcās fulsēre quondam candidī tibī sōlēs, cum ventitābās quō puella dūcēbat amāta nōbīs quant(um) amābitur nūlla. (Catullus, 8.1–5) "Wretched Catullus, you should stop being ...