What are some examples of meter in poetry?

Answer 1

Here is the first part of one that defines some metrical terms and illustrates them in the lines. Metrical feet - Lesson for a boy "Trochee trips from long to short;

From long to long in solemn sort

Slow Spondee stalks; strong foot! yea ill able

Ever to come up with Dactyl trisyllable.

Iambics march from short to long;--

With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng;

One syllable long, with one short at each side,

Amphibrachys hastes with a stately stride;--

First and last being long, middle short, Amphimacer

Strikes his thundering hoofs like a proud highbred Racer...."

--Samuel Taylor Colerdge, 1803.

Answer 2

Some examples of meter in poetry include iambic pentameter, which has five pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables per line (Shakespearean sonnets); trochaic tetrameter, which has four pairs of stressed and unstressed syllables per line (Longfellow's "The Song of Hiawatha"); and anapestic tetrameter, which has four pairs of two short syllables followed by a long syllable (Dr. Seuss's "The Cat in the Hat").

Answer 3

• Iambic pentameter is a common meter in English poetry.

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

• Dactylic hexameter was commonly used for heroic verse in Greek and Latin.

Answer 4

E'ER is sometimes used by poets meaning 'ever' and OFT is sometimes used meaning 'often'. There must be hundreds of examples.

Answer 5

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