Laurel · Poems by form and metre

Anapaestic pentameter

Five 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 pentameter, with how closely each keeps it.

What anapaestic pentameter is

Five beats to the line, two light syllables and then a heavy one: fifteen syllables or so. Rare, and hard to sustain.

da-da-DUM da-da-DUM da-da-DUM da-da-DUM da-da-DUM

How to tell

Fourteen or fifteen syllables with five beats and a swing.

Paste a poem of your own and Laurel will say whether it is in anapaestic pentameter, stanza by stanza. How to scan a line.

26 poems on Laurel in anapaestic pentameter

  1. Saul Robert Browning, Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning
  2. The Deep-Sea Cables Rudyard Kipling, Verses 1889–1896 · 87%
  3. At Madame Tussaud’s in Victorian Years Thomas Hardy, Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses
  4. Sing a Song o’ Shipwreck John Masefield, Salt-Water Ballads · 89%
  5. A Consecration John Masefield, Salt-Water Ballads · 82%
  6. Sea-Change John Masefield, Salt-Water Ballads · 68%
  7. The Triumph Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-Attack and Other Poems · 76%
  8. The Middle Watch Jean Ingelow, Divided, and Other Poems · 88%
  9. On the Road Charles G. D. Roberts, New Poems · 86%
  10. Love Is a Mortal Disease Eleanor Hull, The Poem-Book of the Gael · 84%
  11. "In Syllabam Longam in Voce Vertiginosus A. D. Swift Correptam" Jonathan Swift, On Poetry: A Rhapsody, and Other Poems
  12. A Manger Song Eleanor Farjeon, Sonnets and Poems
  13. A Resurrection Helen Gray Cone, A Chant of Love for England, and Other Poems
  14. A Seaman's Tale of the Sea Henry Van Dyke, The Poems of Henry Van Dyke
  15. Arab Song John Collings Squire, Poems: First Series
  16. Bertha's Eyes Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil
  17. In the Forest Sarojini Naidu, The Golden Threshold
  18. Jeremiads Friedrich Schiller, The Poems of Schiller: Third Period
  19. My Dead Dream Sarojini Naidu, The Golden Threshold
  20. Orpheus and Eurydice IV Alfred Noyes, Collected Poems, Volume One
  21. Pirates Alfred Noyes, Collected Poems, Volume One
  22. Solitude Sarojini Naidu, The Bird of Time: Songs of Life, Death & the Spring
  23. The Antique to the Northern Wanderer Friedrich Schiller, The Poems of Schiller: Third Period
  24. They Will Say Carl Sandburg, Chicago Poems
  25. To a Creolean Lady Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil
  26. With Apologies to Mr. Swinburne Amy Levy, A London Plane-Tree, and Other Verse

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.