| suggest | iambus |
| accent | trochee |
| underneath | anapest |
| metrical | dactyl |
An identical exercise is possible for whole lines. The first stage consists of naming the lines accompanied by the metrical transcription with cards containing simply the transcription and the name of the meter; in the second stage, the same lines are given but on cards without the graphic transcription: for example:
1st stage
| Go | where | glory | waits | thee | Trochaic trimeter |
| | | | | |
| The | Assyrian | came | down | like | the | wolf | on | the | fold | Anapestic tetrameter |
| | | | | | | | | | |
| Venus | thy | mother | in | years | when | the | world | was | a | water | at | rest | Dactyllic hexameter |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2d stage
| Go where glory waits thee | Trochaic trimeter |
| | |
| It was but John the Red and I | Iambic Tetrameter |
| | |
etc., etc.
When these fundamental notions have been acquired the child is ready for the more difficult problems of anacrusis, catalexis, irregular feet and irregular pauses, which he can recognize in almost any poem of considerable length by comparing the transcription of a given foot with specimen transcriptions of regular lines, which are always accessible to him.