1. Accentual vs Quantitative Verse and Iambs

2. Iambs in Accentual verse: Accentual verse is poetry in which the meter derives from the stress, or …

3. What does Alcaic-verse mean? A Greek meter, supposedly invented by Alcaeus; consisting of combinations of spondee, iambs and dactyls

4. But a line with iambs and trochees cannot feature dactyls or Anapests, and vice versa, because they are not equal in length

5. Anapests are rare in spoken English, and in English-language poetry Anapests are far less common than dactyls, iambs, and trochees.

6. ‘Thus in the last stanza quoted, after the surge of Anapaests in the first two lines, spondees, dactyls, and iambs begin to appear.’

7. Definition of Alexandrine : a line of verse of 12 syllables consisting regularly of 6 iambs with a caesura after the third iamb Other Words from Alexandrine Example Sentences Learn More about Alexandrine …

8. Mixing Iambs and Anapests (and also Trochees and Dactyls) works really well in a story because, as in the lines above, a reader never really notices (unless they are specifically looking) if there are one or two UNstressed syllables in between the STRESSED ones.

9. ‘Thus in the last stanza quoted, after the surge of Anapaests in the first two lines, spondees, dactyls, and iambs begin to appear.’ More example sentences ‘They seemed startled by the realization they could actually craft iamb, anapest, anapest, and have it come out a poem.’

10. 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)