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. Following the law of binary movement (the alternation of Arsis and thesis), the accent is made to shorten long syllables and to lengthen short ones, in such wise that the verses, while using the external form of iambic dimeters, are purely rhythmic

3. In the first place, he broke entirely with alliteration and with any-length lines, composing his poem in a metre which is either a fifteen-syllabled iambic tetrameter catalectic, or else, as the reader pleases, a series of distichs in iambic dimeters, alternately Acatalectic and catalectic.

4. 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)

5. 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.