Anapaestic dimeter

Two anapaests to the line, two light syllables then a stress. Below, what the metre is and how to recognise it, then every poem on Laurel measured as anapaestic dimeter, with how closely each keeps it.

69 poems on Laurel in anapaestic dimeter

1. Act 4 Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Poetical Works, Volume I · 95%
2. The Echoing Green William Blake, Poems of William Blake · 97%
3. The Echoing Green William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience · 97%
4. For Annie Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Poetical Works · 86%
5. The Lockless Door Robert Frost, New Hampshire · 99%
6. Spoils of the Dead Robert Frost, A Boy's Will · 98%
7. Gathering Leaves Robert Frost, New Hampshire · 92%
8. Ardella Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues · 100%
9. Tea Wallace Stevens, Harmonium · 91%
10. Cortège for Rosenbloom Wallace Stevens, Harmonium · 89%
11. Complete Destruction William Carlos Williams, Sour Grapes · 100%
12. The Peacock W. B. Yeats, Responsibilities · 97%
13. The Moods W. B. Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds · 93%
14. A Tippling Ballad Robert Burns, Poems and Songs · 90%
15. On Returning a Newspaper Robert Burns, Poems and Songs · 80%
16. At the Tavern Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · 100%
17. Twilight Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · 100%
18. She Gave Me a Rose Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · 94%
19. The Place Where the Rainbow Ends Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · 89%
20. Thoughts of Phena at News of Her Death Thomas Hardy, Wessex Poems and Other Verses · 93%
21. The Souls of the Slain Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and the Present · 88%
22. Frithiof's Farewell Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poetical Works · 98%
23. Spring Isaac Rosenberg, Poems · 100%
24. Lady, You Are My God Isaac Rosenberg, Poems · 95%
25. The Little Old Cupid Walter de la Mare, Peacock Pie · 89%
26. The Changeling Walter de la Mare, Peacock Pie · 84%
27. Song George Meredith, Poems, Volume I · 90%
28. The Rape of Aurora George Meredith, Poems, Volume I · 82%
29. A Mock Song II Richard Lovelace, Lucasta · 94%
30. 243. Draw-Gloves Robert Herrick, Hesperides · 100%
31. 1051. The Tinker's Song Robert Herrick, Hesperides · 97%
32. 643. The Hag Robert Herrick, Hesperides · 96%
33. Calico Pie III Edward Lear, Nonsense Songs · 100%
34. Calico Pie II Edward Lear, Nonsense Songs · 97%
35. The Precocious Baby. A Very True Tale W. S. Gilbert, The Bab Ballads · 87%
36. Chanson Sans Paroles Ernest Dowson, The Poems of Ernest Dowson · 96%
37. The Master of the Dance Vachel Lindsay, The Congo and Other Poems · 89%
38. The Return Sara Teasdale, Flame and Shadow · 96%
39. Choral Song Alan Seeger, Poems · 82%
40. Sea Lullaby Elinor Wylie, Nets to Catch the Wind · 92%
41. The Foreigner Amy Lowell, Sword Blades and Poppy Seed · 94%
42. On Mrs. Parkes’s Pamphlet Thomas Hood, Poems · 100%
43. A Flying Visit Thomas Hood, Poems · 92%
44. The Devil’s Album Thomas Hood, Poems · 82%
45. The Dancing Girl James Weldon Johnson, Fifty Years and Other Poems · 93%
46. A Riddle Jonathan Swift, Poems, Volume II · 100%
47. Night William Watson, The Poems of William Watson · 99%
48. There Was an Old Man Came Over the Lea Robert Bell, Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England · 97%
49. Poems Dora Sigerson · 97%
50. My Grief on the Sea Eleanor Hull, The Poem-Book of the Gael · 96%
51. The Spring of the Year Allan Cunningham, Poems · 96%
52. Reproach to the Pipe Eleanor Hull, The Poem-Book of the Gael · 95%
53. Will Wood's Petition to the People of Ireland Jonathan Swift, Poems, Volume II · 95%
54. Poems Douglas Hyde · 95%
55. Verses in Reply to an Invitation to Dinner at Dr. Baker’s Oliver Goldsmith, Poems · 95%
56. A Reply, by Sheridan, to Delany Jonathan Swift, Poems, Volume II · 94%
57. O Mary of Graces Eleanor Hull, The Poem-Book of the Gael · 94%
58. Urceus Exit Henry Austin Dobson, Poems · 94%
59. Epitaph in Berkeley Church-Yard, Gloucestershire Jonathan Swift, Poems, Volume II · 93%
60. The Last Rose John Davidson, Poems · 93%
61. Dingley and Brent a Song Jonathan Swift, Poems, Volume II · 93%
62. The Downfall of the Gael Eleanor Hull, The Poem-Book of the Gael · 91%
63. Ballad Jonathan Swift, Poems, Volume II · 91%
64. The Prince of Whim Edwin Markham, Lincoln and Other Poems · 90%
65. The Death of Queen Jane (Traditional.) Robert Bell, Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England · 89%
66. The Famous Speech-Maker of England Jonathan Swift, Poems, Volume II · 89%
67. An Excellent New Song Jonathan Swift, Poems, Volume II · 89%
68. Me and Bilkammle Eugene Field, Hoosier Lyrics · 88%
69. Horace's Ode to "Lydia" Roche Eugene Field, Hoosier Lyrics · 87%

Each poem's metre was measured from its own words by the method described here; the figure beside a poem is the share of its stressed syllables that fall on the beat. Forms are named from the rhyme scheme and line count together.