* Iambic tetrameter:

Iambic pentameter, a common meter in English poetry, is based on a normative sequence of five iambic feet or iambs, each consisting of a relatively unstressed syllable ( here represented with "×" above the syllable ) followed by a relatively stressed one ( here represented with "/" above the syllable ) — " da-DUM "

Iambic pentameter and dactylic hexameter were later used by a number of poets, including William Shakespeare and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, respectively.

) She was believed to have given the name to iambic poetry, for some said that she hanged herself in consequence of the cutting speeches in which she had indulged, and others that she had cheered Demeter by a dance in the Iambic metre.

" And further he wrote, " that the nature of melody is best discovered by the perception of sense, and is retained by memory ; and that there is no other way of arriving at the knowledge of music ;" and though, he wrote, " others affirm that it is by the study of instruments that we attain this knowledge ;" this, he wrote, is talking wildly, " for just as it is not necessary for him who writes an Iambic to attend to the arithmetical proportions of the feet of which it is composed, so it is not necessary for him who writes a Phrygian song to attend to the ratios of the sounds proper thereto.

The best known poem in this volume is " Waking Early Sunday Morning ," which was written in eight-line tetrameter stanzas ( borrowed from Andrew Marvell's poem " Upon Appleton House ") and showed contemporary American politics overtly entering into Lowell's work.

Although it was written in iambic tetrameter, Marvell was known to primarily write in iambic pentameter.

The poem is in trochaic tetrameter, " in imitation of, and argument with the most famous Russian war poem, Aleksandr Tvardovsky's Vasili Tyorkin.

The work is a novel in verse composed of 590 Onegin stanzas ( sonnets written in iambic tetrameter, with the rhyme scheme following the unusual ababccddeffegg pattern of Eugene Onegin ).

** Onegin stanzas: " aBaBccDDeFFeGG " with the lowercase letters representing feminine rhymes and the uppercase representing masculine rhymes, written in iambic tetrameter

Most northern and west European ballads are written in ballad stanzas or quatrains ( four-line stanzas ) of alternating lines of iambic ( an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable ) tetrameter ( eight syllables ) and iambic trimeter ( six syllables ), known as ballad meter.

The trochaic tetrameter catalecticfour pairs of trochees per line, with the final syllable omittedwas identified by Aristotle as the original meter of tragic dialogue ( Poetics 1449a21 ).

The so-called ballad meter, or the common meter of the hymnodists ( see also hymn ), is usually thought of as a line of iambic tetrameter followed by a line of trimeter, but it can also be considered a line of heptameter with a fixed caesura at the fourth foot.

The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem, in trochaic tetrameter, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, featuring an Indian hero.

The Song of Hiawatha was written in trochaic tetrameter, the same meter as Kalevala, the Finnish epic reconstructed by Elias Lönnrot from fragments of folk poetry.

Common metre or Common measure, abbreviated C. M. or CM, is a poetic metre consisting of four lines which alternate between iambic tetrameter ( four metrical feet per line, with each foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable ) and iambic trimeter ( three metrical feet per line, with each foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable ), rhyming in the pattern a-b-a-b.

" The Road Not Taken " is a narrative poem consisting of four stanzas of iambic tetrameter ( though it is hypermetric by one beat-there are nine syllables per line, instead of the strict eight required for tetrameter ) and is one of Frost's most popular works.

* Tetrameter. com A website featuring work written in tetrameter by various poets

The libretto by Bel ' sky borrows many lines from and largely emulates the style of Pushkin's poem, which is written in couplets of trochaic tetrameter.

It was first released by Random House Books on April 12, 1958, and is written in Seuss's trademark style, using a type of meter called anapestic tetrameter.

However, in very rare contexts where catalexis might be considered probable ( e. g., in English trochaic tetrameter, or in differentiating acatalectic verses from surrounding catalectic ones ), explicit expression of the verse's metrical completeness may be achieved by using the term.

The first lines of the poem follow iambic tetrameter with the initial stanza relying on heavy stresses.

It is composed in iambic tetrameter ( four feet of unstressed / stressed syllables ), with seven ( sometimes six, depending on the version ) stanzas each composed of two rhyming couplets.

The rhyme is constructed of quatrains in trochaic tetrameter catalectic, ( each line made up of four metrical feet of two syllables, with the stress falling on the first syllable in a pair ; the last foot in the line missing the unstressed syllable ), which is common in nursery rhymes.

The work was mostly written in verses of iambic tetrameter with the rhyme scheme " aBaBccDDeFFeGG ", where the lowercase letters represent feminine endings ( i. e., with an additional unstressed syllable ) and the uppercase representing masculine ending ( i. e. stressed on the final syllable ).

* His collection of short stories, " Worlds Enough & Time ", takes its name from the first line of the poem To His Coy Mistress by British poet Andrew Marvell: ' Had we but world enough, and time ,'.

* 1621 – Andrew Marvell, English poet ( d. 1678 )

In the 17th century the most important original odes in English are those of Abraham Cowley and Andrew Marvell.

* March 31 – Andrew Marvell, English poet ( d. 1678 )

* August 16 – Andrew Marvell, English writer ( b. 1621 )

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Lyric is the dominant poetic idiom in 17th century English poetry from John Donne to Andrew Marvell.

The metaphysical poets were John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Thomas Traherne, Henry Vaughan and others.

Others include George Herbert, Thomas Traherne, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell, and Richard Crashaw.

In 1868 he brought out a bibliography of the writings of Richard Baxter, and from that year until 1876 he was occupied in reproducing for private subscribers the “ Fuller Worthies Library ,” a series of thirty-nine volumes which included the works of Thomas Fuller, Sir John Davies, Fulke Greville, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, John Donne and Sir Philip Sidney.

There in 1645 Andrew Marvell met him, and described his leanness and his rage for versifying in a witty satire, " Flecknoe, an English Priest at Rome.