1. The scansion of the Limerick written by Edward Lear (1812 –1888) in quantitative meter is shown where the Amphibrach foot in the poem with trimeter (3) and dimeter (2) verses in a rhyme scheme aabbA is used

2. Each line of a poem contains a certain number of feet of iambs, trochees, spondees, dactyls or Anapests. A line of one foot is a monometer, 2 feet is a dimeter, and so on--trimeter (3), tetrameter (4), pentameter (5), hexameter (6), heptameter (7), and o ctameter (8)

3. The Alcaic ode is composed of several strophes, each consisting of four verses, the first two of which are always eleven-syllable Alcaics of the first kind; the third verse is an iambic dimeter hypercatalectic consisting of nine syllables; and the fourth verse is a ten-syllable Alcaic of the second kind.