Accentual poems -- Trochaic poems -- Anapestic poems -- Dactylic poems -- Iambic poems -- Poems in ballad meter and fourteeners -- Amphibrachic poems -- Poems in sapphics and alcaics -- Poems in hendecasyllabics, cretics, and lesser ionics.
Summary
This comprehensive and joyous celebration of metered verse from Shakespeare to slam poetry brings together some of the best rhythmic lines in literature.