224). In a more extended analysis (pp. 231–2), he comments: The medial break in the alexandrine, though it may do well enough in French, becomes intolerable in a language with such a tyrannous stress-accent as ours: the line struts. The fourteener has a much pleasanter movement, but a totally different one: the line dances a jig. The poets Surrey, Tuberville, Gascoigne, Balassone, Golding and others all used the Poulter's Measure, the rhyming fourteener with authority. Illustrations William Blake used lines of fourteen syllables, for example in The Book of Thel. These lines, however, are not written in iambic heptameter. Four of the poems included by J.R.R. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings are written in fourteeners: "Galadriel's Song of Eldamar," in the chapter "Farewell to Lórien"; the "Lament for Boromir" in the chapter "The Departure of Boromir"; and two in the chapter "Treebeard" -- Treebeard's song of "The Ent and the Entwife"; and the lament of the Ent Quickbeam for his rowan trees. The last of these features internal rhyme. Queen Marina of the video game Dragon Quest XI speaks exclusively in fourteeners. The Gravemind from the Halo Trilogy speaks in acephalous fourteeners: The seventh song of Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella is written in rhyming fourteener couplets: Sidney's friend, the translator Arthur Golding, was extremely fond of fourteeners: The theme to Gilligan's Island is largely composed in iambic heptameter: The children’s book Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andreae is entirely composed in iambic heptameter: Graeme Base's The Sign of the Seahorse is entirely in iambic heptameter, the first lines being: Ernest Thayer's popular "Casey at the Bat" (1888): Robert Southwell's most famous poem "The Burning Babe" is in rhyming fourteeners: A Tribe Called Quest's song "Lyrics to Go" is constructed largely around fourteeners: Poulter's measure Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey's "Complaint of the Absence of her lover, being upon the sea" (1547) is in Poulter's measure: References External links Examples of Poulter's Measure of Thomas Wyatt and others Poetic rhythm Sonnet studies