Polish alexandrine Fourteener (iambic heptameter): line consisting of 7 iambic feet (14 syllables) Galliambic verse Iambic pentameter: line consisting of 5 iambic feet (10 syllables) Iambic tetrameter: line consisting of 4 iambic feet (8 syllables) Trochaic meter: any meter based on the trochee as its primary rhythmic unit. Trochaic tetrameter Trochaic octameter Trochaic septenarius Arabic poetic meters: Basīṭ Hazaj Kāmil Mutaqārib Madīd Rajaz Tawīl Wāfir Anapestic tetrameter (aka reverse dactyl): a poetic meter that has 4 anapestic metres per line. Common metre: a quatrain that rhymes "abab" and alternates 4-stress and 3-stress iambic lines. This is the meter used in hymns and ballads. Indian poetic meters: Chhand Kannada meter Mandakranta Mātrika Ovi Triveni Sanskrit meter Tamil meter Vedic meter Triṣṭubh: a Vedic meter of 44 syllables, or any hymn composed in this meter Long metre (aka long measure): a poetic metre consisting of quatrains (4-line stanzas) in iambic tetrameter with the rhyme pattern "abab". Persian metres Quantitative meter: the dominant metrical system in which the rhythm depends on the length of time it takes to utter a line rather than on the number of stresses. Traditional Welsh Types of verse Accentual verse Accentual-syllabic verse Acatalexis Adonic Aeolic Glyconic: most basic form of aeolic verse. Alcmanian Archilochian Asclepiad Choliamb Dochmiac Doggerel: a bad verse, traditionally characterized by clichés, clumsiness, and irregular meter. Free verse and vers libre: an open form of poetry that does not use consistent of meter patterns, rhyme, or any musical pattern, therefore tending to follow the rhythm of natural speech. Knittelvers Heroic verse Riding rhyme: an early form of heroic verse derived from the rhythm of the poetry in parts of The Canterbury Tales depicting the pilgrims as they rode along. Leonine verse McWhirtle Neo-Miltonic syllabics Political verse (aka decapentasyllabic verse): iambic verse of 15 syllables. Saturnian Anuṣṭubh: a quatrain with each line (called a pāda, or 'foot') having 8 syllables. Shloka Triadic-line Verse forms (A capital letter in any rhyme schemes below indicates a line that is repeated verbatim.) Blank verse: non-rhyming iambic pentameter (10-syllable line). It is the predominant rhythm of traditional English dramatic and epic poetry, as it is considered the closest to English speech patterns. Examples: "Paradise Lost" by John Milton and “Sunday Morning” by Wallace Stevens. Chant royal: five stanzas of "ababccddedE" followed by either "ddedE" or "ccddedE." 'a Gra' Reformata': ten stanzas of ABA CD ABA CD ABA CD ABA CD