Five-Stress Lines (Pentameter)
Iambic (Heroic pentameter):
Examples: Milton, Paradise Lost; Bryant, Thanatopsis, etc., etc.
Sweet Aúburn, lóveliest víllage óf the plaín
Where heálth and beaúty cheér the láboring swaín ...
Goldsmith.
Trochaic:
Examples: Browning, One word more; Tennyson, The Vision of Sin.
Thén methoúght I heárd a méllow soúnd,
Gáthering úp from áll the lówer groúnd.
Anapestic:
Examples: Browning, Saul; Tennyson, Maud.