Poems in anapaestic hexameter

Six anapaests to the line, two light syllables then a stress. Below, every poem on Laurel measured as anapaestic hexameter, with how closely each keeps it.

21 poems on Laurel

  1. The Voice of the Rain Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass · 80%
  2. Tests Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass · 71%
  3. Offerings Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass · 70%
  4. You Felons on Trial in Courts Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass · 70%
  5. That Shadow My Likeness Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass · 66%
  6. Usheen W. B. Yeats, Poems · 88%
  7. The White Birds W. B. Yeats, Poems · 85%
  8. Book III W. B. Yeats, Poems · 83%
  9. Usheen W. B. Yeats, Poems · 83%
  10. Aedh Tells of the Rose in His Heart W. B. Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds · 82%
  11. Maud I Alfred Tennyson, Poems · 84%
  12. Maud IV Alfred Tennyson, Poems · 78%
  13. L'Envoi Rudyard Kipling, Verses 1889–1896 · 72%
  14. The Quartette Walter de la Mare, Peacock Pie · 90%
  15. To Alex. Smith, the ‘Glasgow Poet,’ on His Sonnet to ‘Fame’ George Meredith, Poems, Volume I · 81%
  16. Reinforcements Marianne Moore, Poems · 71%
  17. The Revenge of Hamish Sidney Lanier, Poems · 85%
  18. Somewhat in Imitation of the Poems of Ossian Joanna Baillie, Poems (1790) · 89%
  19. A Farewell George William Russell, The Divine Vision and Other Poems · 87%
  20. Children of Lir George William Russell, The Divine Vision and Other Poems · 75%
  21. Hope in Failure George William Russell, The Divine Vision and Other Poems · 70%

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.