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