metre
basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse
political verse
iambic verse of 15 syllables; common metric form in Medieval and Modern Greek
dactylic pentameter
line consisting of five dactylic feet
bahr
meter in Arabic, Persian, Turkic and Urdu poetry
sprung rhythm
poetic rhythm designed to imitate the rhythm of natural speech
iambic trimeter
meter consisting of three dipodies each containing two iambs per line (i.e. 6 iambs per line)
Shi
the Chinese conception of poetry
Iambic tetrameter
line consisting of four iambic feet
octameter
meter consisting of eight metrical feet
dimeter
metrical line of verse with two feet
ottava rima
rhyming stanza form consisting of eight iambic lines
Saturnian
metre in early Roman poetry
heptameter
meter consisting of seven metrical feet
dactylic hexameter
line consisting of six dactylic feet
senarius
meter consisting of six feet
Sari'
meter used in classical Arabic poetry
Aeolic verse
Class of Ancient Greek poetic form
double dactyl
Fixed verse form
heptasyllable
verse of seven syllabes
hymn metre
indicates the number of syllables for the lines in each stanza of a hymn
asclepiad
line of poetry following a particular matrical pattern; the form is attributed to Asclepiades of Samos and is one of the Aeolic metres
Serbian trochees
poetic meter; form of trochaic pentameter
Ramal
meter used in classical Arabic poetry
tetrameter
meter consisting of four metrical feet
alexandrine
line of poetic meter comprising 12 syllables
Choliamb
Greek and Latin poetic verse form
trimeter
metre of three metrical feet per line
Vedic meter
Indian poetic metre
trochaic tetrameter
line of four trochaic feet
pentasyllabic verse
verse with five syllabes
pentasyllabic verse
verse with five syllabes
Spanish hexameter
form in Spanish poetry, consisting of 5 dactyls and 1 trochee
Neo-Miltonic syllabics
meter devised by Robert Bridges
canzone
Italian or Provençal song or ballad
alliterative verse
form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal structuring device
Kalevala meter
form of trochaic tetrameter used in Kalevala
metrical pattern
pattern used by a verse
hexameter
metrical line of verses consisting of six feet
octosyllable
verse with eight syllables per line
foot
metrical unit in poetry
silva
Spanish poetic stanza consisting of 11- and 7-syllable lines
dactylic tetrameter
line consisting of four dactylic feet
long metre
poetic metre consisting of four line stanzas, or quatrains, in iambic tetrameter with alternate rhyme pattern a-b-a-b
bridge
kind of poetic metre
hexasyllable
verse form with six syllables per line
pentameter
meter consisting of five metrical feet
elegiac couplet
poetic form used by Greek lyric poets