It will be convenient to remember that two of these, the iambus and the anapest, have the accent on the last syllable, and that two, the trochee and the dactyl, have the accent on the first syllable.
A spondee is a foot consisting of two syllables, both of which are accented about equally. It is an unusual foot in English poetry.
U | | U | U _ |
Come now, blow, Wind, and waft us o'er.
A pyrrhic is a foot consisting of two syllables both of which are unaccented. It is frequently found at the end of a line.
U | U | U _|U U
Life is so full of misery.
An amphibrach is a foot consisting of three syllables, with the accent on the second.
U U U U| U U| U |
Creator, Preserver, Redeemer and friend.
+110. Names of Verse.+—A single line of poetry is called a verse. A stanza is composed of several verses. When a verse consists of one foot, it is called a monometer; of two feet, a dimeter; of three feet, a trimeter; of four feet, a tetrameter; of five feet, a pentameter; and of six feet, a hexameter.
_ U
Monometer. Slowly.
U U| U U |
Dimeter. Emblem of happiness.