Poetry Meter and Rhyme

In the midst / of the word / he was try/ing to say,

In the midst/ of his laugh/ter and glee,

He had soft/ly and sud/den ly va/nished away

• Pyrrhic Pentameter

• Iambic Trimeter

• Dactylic Tetrameter

• Anapestic Tetrameter

Cannon to / right of them,

Cannon to / left of them,

Cannon in / front of them

• Dactylic Dimeter

• Trochaic Trimeter

• Iambic Trimeter

• Pyrrhic Dimeter

Slow slow, / fresh font, / keep time / with my / salt tears

• Pyrrhic Pentameter

• Dactylic Pentameter

• Iambic Pentameter

• Anapestic Pentameter

Tyger / Tyger,/ burning /bright

In the / forest /of the/ night;

• Trochaic Heptameter

• Pyrrhic Tetrameter

• Trochaic Tetrameter

• Iambic Hexameter

Shall I / compare / thee to/ a sum/mer’s day?

Thou art / more love/ly and / more tem/perate

Rough Winds / do shake / the dar/ling buds/ of May,

And sum/mer’s lease /hath all/ too short /a date.

• Anapestic Octameter

• Iambic Pentameter

• Dactylic Pentameter

• Trochaic Pentameter