The following meters were used in Greek poetry and borrowed into Latin poetry in the classical period:
Major forms
- Dactylic hexameter
- Elegiac couplet, consisting of a line of dactylic hexameter and one of dactylic pentameter
- Iambic trimeter
Aeolics
Other meters
- Choliambic, also known as limping iambs or scazon
- Ionic
- Anacreonteus
- Anapestic
- Trochaic
- Dactylo-epitrite
- Dochmiac
- Galliambic
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