Blank verse

Unrhymed iambic pentameter: the line of Shakespeare's plays, Paradise Lost, The Prelude and most long English poems that do not rhyme. Below, what blank verse is, then every poem on Laurel in unrhymed iambic pentameter.

What blank verse is

Iambic pentameter that does not rhyme: five beats to the line, light then heavy, ten syllables, and no rhyme at the line ends. The line of Shakespeare’s plays, Paradise Lost, The Prelude and most long English poems that do not rhyme.

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

of MAN’s first DIS-o-BE-dience, AND the FRUIT
Milton, Paradise Lost; the beats in capitals

How to tell

Ten syllables, five beats, and the line ends do not rhyme. The sense runs on past the line end far more often than in rhymed verse.

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583 poems on Laurel in blank verse

Inferno: Canto XV Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy · 96%
Paradiso: Canto III Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy · 96%
Inferno: Canto XVII Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy · 95%
Inferno: Canto XXX Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy · 95%
Purgatorio: Canto XXVI Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy · 95%
Paradiso: Canto VIII Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy · 95%
Purgatorio: Canto XV Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy · 95%
Inferno: Canto XXI Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy · 95%
Paradiso: Canto XX Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy · 95%
Inferno: Canto IX Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy · 95%
Inferno: Canto XIII Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy · 95%
Purgatorio: Canto X Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy · 95%
The Measure John Milton, L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas · 95%
Book X John Milton, Paradise Lost · 94%
Book III John Milton, Paradise Lost · 94%
Book IV John Milton, Paradise Lost · 93%
Book IX John Milton, Paradise Lost · 93%
Book VII John Milton, Paradise Lost · 93%
Book V John Milton, Paradise Lost · 93%
Book II John Milton, Paradise Lost · 93%
Book VIII John Milton, Paradise Lost · 93%
Book I John Milton, Paradise Lost · 93%
The Two Brothers John Milton, L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas · 93%
Book VI John Milton, Paradise Lost · 92%
Book IV John Milton, Paradise Regained · 92%
Book III John Milton, Paradise Regained · 92%
Book I John Milton, Paradise Regained · 92%
Book II John Milton, Paradise Regained · 90%
"It Was an April Morning: Fresh and Clear" William Wordsworth, The Brothers, and Other Poems · 97%
A Pastoral Poem William Wordsworth, The Brothers, and Other Poems · 96%
To Joanna William Wordsworth, The Brothers, and Other Poems · 96%
Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, a Sketch William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads · 95%
Sub-Footnotes on the Text William Wordsworth, The Brothers, and Other Poems · 95%
The Brothers William Wordsworth, The Brothers, and Other Poems · 95%
The Foster-Mother’s Tale, a Dramatic Fragment William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads · 95%
"On Nature's Invitation Do I Come" William Wordsworth, The Brothers, and Other Poems · 95%
"When, to the Attractions of the Busy World" William Wordsworth, The Prelude, and Other Poems · 94%
"A Narrow Girdle of Rough Stones and Crags" William Wordsworth, The Brothers, and Other Poems · 94%
There Was a Boy William Wordsworth, The Brothers, and Other Poems · 94%
A Conversational Poem, Written in April, 1798 William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads · 94%
Book Thirteenth: Imagination and Taste, How Impaired and Restored—Concluded William Wordsworth, The Prelude, and Other Poems · 94%
Upon Loch Awe William Wordsworth, The Brothers, and Other Poems · 93%
Vaudracour and Julia William Wordsworth, The Prelude, and Other Poems · 93%
Book Fourteenth: Conclusion William Wordsworth, The Prelude, and Other Poems · 93%
To William Wordsworth William Wordsworth, The Prelude, and Other Poems · 93%
Book Eleventh: FRANCE—concluded William Wordsworth, The Prelude, and Other Poems · 92%
Book Tenth: Residence in France—'Continued' William Wordsworth, The Prelude, and Other Poems · 92%
From an Unpublished Poem William Wordsworth, The Brothers, and Other Poems · 92%
Book Second: SCHOOL-TIME—continued William Wordsworth, The Prelude, and Other Poems · 92%
Nutting William Wordsworth, The Brothers, and Other Poems · 92%
"Bleak Season Was It, Turbulent and Bleak" William Wordsworth, The Brothers, and Other Poems · 92%
Book Ninth: Residence in France William Wordsworth, The Prelude, and Other Poems · 92%
Book Sixth: Cambridge and the Alps William Wordsworth, The Prelude, and Other Poems · 92%
Book Seventh: Residence in London William Wordsworth, The Prelude, and Other Poems · 92%
Book Third: Residence at Cambridge William Wordsworth, The Prelude, and Other Poems · 91%
The Dungeon William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads · 83%
Hyperion, Book III John Keats, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems · 94%
Hyperion, Book I John Keats, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems · 93%
Hyperion, Book II John Keats, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems · 93%
Fragment 5 Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alastor, and Other Poems · 100%
Second Guest: And I Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alastor, and Other Poems · 95%
Olimpio: Now Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alastor, and Other Poems · 94%
Andrea: The Lady Beatrice Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alastor, and Other Poems · 94%
Act 2 Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alastor, and Other Poems · 94%
Giacomo: Escaped! Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alastor, and Other Poems · 94%
Act 4 Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alastor, and Other Poems · 93%
Orsino: Then Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alastor, and Other Poems · 93%
Act 1 Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alastor, and Other Poems · 92%
Demogorgon: Merciful God Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alastor, and Other Poems · 92%
Act 3 Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alastor, and Other Poems · 92%
Beatrice: No Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alastor, and Other Poems · 92%
Orpheus Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind, and Other Poems · 91%
Frost at Midnight Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poems of Coleridge · 95%
To a Gentleman Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poems of Coleridge · 94%
A Conversation Poem, Written in April 1798 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poems of Coleridge · 93%
Written in April 1798, During the Alarm of an Invasion Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poems of Coleridge · 92%
Composed at Clevedon, Somersetshire Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poems of Coleridge · 91%
A Tombless Epitaph Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poems of Coleridge · 91%
Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poems of Coleridge · 89%
The Coliseum Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven, and Other Poems · 91%
Two Look at Two Robert Frost, New Hampshire · 98%
The Mountain Robert Frost, North of Boston · 98%
In the Home Stretch Robert Frost, Mountain Interval · 97%
The Census-Taker Robert Frost, New Hampshire · 96%
The Fear Robert Frost, North of Boston · 96%
Mending Wall Robert Frost, North of Boston · 96%
Paul's Wife Robert Frost, New Hampshire · 96%
The Bonfire Robert Frost, Mountain Interval · 96%
The Pauper Witch of Grafton Robert Frost, New Hampshire · 96%
The Housekeeper Robert Frost, North of Boston · 96%
Snow Robert Frost, Mountain Interval · 96%
The Wood-pile Robert Frost, North of Boston · 95%
Home Burial Robert Frost, North of Boston · 95%
Christmas Trees Robert Frost, Mountain Interval · 95%
The Code Robert Frost, North of Boston · 94%
The Vanishing Red Robert Frost, Mountain Interval · 94%
Two Witches Robert Frost, New Hampshire · 94%
Birches Robert Frost, Mountain Interval · 94%
The Generations of Men Robert Frost, North of Boston · 94%
"Out, Out—" Robert Frost, Mountain Interval · 94%
A Servant to Servants Robert Frost, North of Boston · 93%
A Hundred Collars Robert Frost, North of Boston · 93%
The Death of the Hired Man Robert Frost, North of Boston · 93%
The Black Cottage Robert Frost, North of Boston · 92%
Waiting Afield at Dusk Robert Frost, A Boy's Will · 86%
The Doctor of Geneva Wallace Stevens, Harmonium · 96%
Hibiscus on the Sleeping Shores Wallace Stevens, Harmonium · 96%
A High-Toned Old Christian Woman Wallace Stevens, Harmonium · 90%
The Idea of a Colony Wallace Stevens, Harmonium · 89%
Stars at Tallapoosa Wallace Stevens, Harmonium · 89%
Concerning the Thunderstorms of Yucatan Wallace Stevens, Harmonium · 88%
And Daughters with Curls Wallace Stevens, Harmonium · 87%
Palace of the Babies Wallace Stevens, Harmonium · 85%
An Idyl for Glaucus Ezra Pound, Personae · 97%
In the Old Age of the Soul Ezra Pound, Personae · 97%
In Durance Ezra Pound, Personae · 94%
Near Perigord Ezra Pound, Lustra · 94%
A Vision of Italy Ezra Pound, Personae · 94%
And Thus in Nineveh Ezra Pound, Personae · 92%
Occidit Ezra Pound, Personae · 91%
Poem II Ezra Pound, Lustra · 87%
Aleel W. B. Yeats, Poems · 95%
Ephemera W. B. Yeats, Poems · 90%
The Child W. B. Yeats, Poems · 90%
Audley Court Alfred Tennyson, The Early Poems · 99%
Love and Duty Alfred Tennyson, The Early Poems · 98%
Edwin Morris, or the Lake Alfred Tennyson, The Early Poems · 98%
Dora Alfred Tennyson, The Early Poems · 98%
Walking to the Mail Alfred Tennyson, The Early Poems · 97%
Geraint and Enid Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King · 96%
Merlin and Vivien Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King · 96%
The Marriage of Geraint Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King · 96%
The Passing of Arthur Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King · 96%
The Epic Alfred Tennyson, The Early Poems · 96%
The Golden Year Alfred Tennyson, The Early Poems · 96%
Guinevere Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King · 96%
St Simon Stylites Alfred Tennyson, The Early Poems · 95%
Balin and Balan Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King · 95%
The Mystic Alfred Tennyson, The Early Poems · 95%
Godiva Alfred Tennyson, The Early Poems · 95%
The Holy Grail Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King · 94%
To the Queen Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King · 93%
Œnone Alfred Tennyson, The Early Poems · 93%
Timbuctoo Alfred Tennyson, The Early Poems · 92%
Fra Lippo Lippi Robert Browning, Men and Women · 95%
Andrea Del Sarto (Called "The Faultless Painter") Robert Browning, Men and Women · 95%
How It Strikes a Contemporary Robert Browning, Men and Women · 94%
Artemis Prologizes Robert Browning, Men and Women · 94%
Bishop Blougram's Apology Robert Browning, Men and Women · 94%
Cleon Robert Browning, Men and Women · 94%
"Transcendentalism: A Poem in Twelve Books" Robert Browning, Men and Women · 92%
Georgic III Virgil, The Georgics · 95%
Georgic I Virgil, The Georgics · 94%
Georgic IV Virgil, The Georgics · 94%
Georgic II Virgil, The Georgics · 93%
Book XII Ovid, The Metamorphoses · 96%
Book I Ovid, The Metamorphoses · 96%
Book II Ovid, The Metamorphoses · 96%
Book IX Ovid, The Metamorphoses · 96%
Book V Ovid, The Metamorphoses · 96%
Book III Ovid, The Metamorphoses · 96%
Book XIII Ovid, The Metamorphoses · 96%
Book XIV Ovid, The Metamorphoses · 96%
Book VII Ovid, The Metamorphoses · 95%
Book XI Ovid, The Metamorphoses · 95%
Book X Ovid, The Metamorphoses · 95%
Book VIII Ovid, The Metamorphoses · 95%
Carmen XX: To Priapus Catullus, The Carmina · 99%
Carmen IV: On His Pinnace Catullus, The Carmina · 97%
Carmen VI: To Flavius: Mis-Speaking His Mistress Catullus, The Carmina · 96%
Carmen XXXI: On Return to Sirmio and His Villa Catullus, The Carmina · 95%
Carmen XIV: To Calvus, Acknowledging His Poems Catullus, The Carmina · 95%
Carmen XLIV: Catullus to His Own Farm Catullus, The Carmina · 89%
ACT I. Sc. I Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems · 90%
Passion and Love Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · 100%
The Right to Die Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · 92%
Sestina of the Tramp-Royal Rudyard Kipling, Verses 1889–1896 · 94%
The Workshop of Hephæstus Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life, and Other Poems · 97%
The Spirit of Poetry Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life, and Other Poems · 95%
The Terrestrial Paradise Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life, and Other Poems · 94%
Charlemagne Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life, and Other Poems · 94%
Autumn Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life, and Other Poems · 93%
Tower of Prometheus on Mount Caucasus Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life, and Other Poems · 92%
An Episode Matthew Arnold, Poems · 97%
Sending Matthew Arnold, Poems · 96%
Journey to the Dead Matthew Arnold, Poems · 96%
Quiet Work Matthew Arnold, Poems · 90%
The Show Wilfred Owen, Poems · 95%
Strange Meeting Wilfred Owen, Poems · 93%
Another Version Wilfred Owen, Poems · 93%
A Terre Wilfred Owen, Poems · 92%
The Shipwreck of Idomeneus George Meredith, Modern Love, and Other Poems · 92%
Interim Edna St. Vincent Millay, Renascence and Other Poems · 94%
Voyages IV Hart Crane, White Buildings · 94%
At Melville’s Tomb Hart Crane, White Buildings · 93%
Voyages V Hart Crane, White Buildings · 93%
Repose of Rivers Hart Crane, White Buildings · 92%
Chaplinesque Hart Crane, White Buildings · 90%
Voyages III Hart Crane, White Buildings · 89%
Paraphrase Hart Crane, White Buildings · 88%
Passage Hart Crane, White Buildings · 87%
The Alchemist I Hart Crane, White Buildings · 85%
The Alchemist II Hart Crane, White Buildings · 85%
Book IV Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer · 94%
Fiesole Idyl Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations and Poems · 98%
To the River Avon Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations and Poems · 90%
To Robert Browning Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations and Poems · 88%
A Working Party Siegfried Sassoon, The War Poems · 94%
Prelude: The Troops Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-Attack and Other Poems · 88%
Prelude: The Troops Siegfried Sassoon, The War Poems · 88%
The Death-Bed Siegfried Sassoon, The War Poems · 88%
Counter-Attack Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-Attack and Other Poems · 84%
Counter-Attack Siegfried Sassoon, The War Poems · 84%
Book IV Lucretius, On the Nature of Things · 92%
Book II Lucretius, On the Nature of Things · 92%
Book V Lucretius, On the Nature of Things · 91%
Book I Lucretius, On the Nature of Things · 91%
Book III Lucretius, On the Nature of Things · 91%
Book VI Lucretius, On the Nature of Things · 91%
The Theogony Hesiod, The Works and Days, the Theogony and the Shield of Hercules · 94%
The Shield of Hercules Hesiod, The Works and Days, the Theogony and the Shield of Hercules · 93%
Argeia Robert Bridges, The Growth of Love, and Other Poems · 95%
Hades Robert Bridges, The Growth of Love, and Other Poems · 92%
Inachus Robert Bridges, The Growth of Love, and Other Poems · 91%
From Wm. Blake Robert Bridges, The Growth of Love, and Other Poems · 81%
On Conclusion of the Boer War, June 1902 Robert Bridges, The Growth of Love, and Other Poems · 75%
The Diary of a Successful Man Ernest Dowson, The Poems of Ernest Dowson · 87%
Jennie M’Grew Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology · 95%
Alfred Moir Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology · 93%
Dorcas Gustine Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology · 92%
State’s Attorney Fallas Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology · 92%
Isaiah Beethoven Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology · 90%
Lambert Hutchins Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology · 90%
Professor Newcomer Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology · 88%
Edmund Pollard Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology · 88%
Searcy Foote Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology · 87%
Mickey M’Grew Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology · 86%
Minerva Jones Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology · 86%
Batterton Dobyns Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology · 86%
Young Blood Stephen Vincent Benét, Young Adventure · 93%
The General Public Stephen Vincent Benét, Young Adventure · 92%
The Lover in Hell Stephen Vincent Benét, Young Adventure · 90%
The White Peacock I Stephen Vincent Benét, Young Adventure · 87%
The White Peacock II Stephen Vincent Benét, Young Adventure · 87%
Laurance I Jean Ingelow, Divided, and Other Poems · 96%
Child and Boatman Jean Ingelow, Divided, and Other Poems · 96%
An Imperfect Fable with a Doubtful Moral Jean Ingelow, Divided, and Other Poems · 95%
Laurance II Jean Ingelow, Divided, and Other Poems · 95%
Laurance III Jean Ingelow, Divided, and Other Poems · 95%
The Moral Jean Ingelow, Divided, and Other Poems · 92%
Octaves Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Children of the Night · 95%
Walt Whitman Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Children of the Night · 94%
The Night Before Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Children of the Night · 84%
Fog Emma Lazarus, Admetus, and Other Poems · 94%
Admetus Emma Lazarus, Admetus, and Other Poems · 94%
Saint Romualdo Emma Lazarus, Admetus, and Other Poems · 94%
Tannhauser Emma Lazarus, Admetus, and Other Poems · 93%
By a Tailor Oliver Wendell Holmes, Old Ironsides, and Other Poems · 95%
Book I: The Sofa William Cowper, The Task · 95%
Book II: The Timepiece William Cowper, The Task · 94%
Book IV: The Winter Evening William Cowper, The Task · 94%
Book III: The Garden William Cowper, The Task · 94%
Book VI: The Winter Walk at Noon William Cowper, The Task · 94%
Book V: The Winter Morning Walk William Cowper, The Task · 93%
Deep in the Quiet Wood James Weldon Johnson, Fifty Years and Other Poems · 99%
Brothers James Weldon Johnson, Fifty Years and Other Poems · 94%
And the Greatest of These Is War James Weldon Johnson, Fifty Years and Other Poems · 87%
Between the Wind and Rain Isabella Valancy Crawford, Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie and Other Poems · 98%
Dean Stanley Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Sisters' Tragedy, with Other Poems · 98%
He Despairs of Escape from the Torments by Which He Is Surrounded Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · 98%
He Prays God to Guide His Frail Bark to a Safe Port Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · 98%
For a Grotto Mark Akenside, The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside · 98%
A Summer Day Joanna Baillie, Poems (1790) · 98%
Part I Isabella Valancy Crawford, Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie and Other Poems · 98%
Curtius Isabella Valancy Crawford, Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie and Other Poems · 98%
Canzone I Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · 97%
The Wooing of Gheezis Isabella Valancy Crawford, Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie and Other Poems · 97%
Morphine Heinrich Heine, Poems and Ballads · 97%
Part II Isabella Valancy Crawford, Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie and Other Poems · 97%
Part III Isabella Valancy Crawford, Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie and Other Poems · 97%
The Recruiting Sergeant Various, A Lute of Jade · 97%
Part VI Isabella Valancy Crawford, Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie and Other Poems · 97%
To the Moon Giacomo Leopardi, The Poems of Leopardi · 97%
Book II Mark Akenside, The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside · 96%
Part VII Isabella Valancy Crawford, Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie and Other Poems · 96%
The Non-Combatant Henry John Newbolt, Poems: New and Old · 96%
A Winter Day Joanna Baillie, Poems (1790) · 96%
Part IV Isabella Valancy Crawford, Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie and Other Poems · 96%
My Irish Love Isabella Valancy Crawford, Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie and Other Poems · 96%
On Recovery from Sickness Henry Kirke White, The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White · 96%
On Whit-Monday Henry Kirke White, The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White · 96%
A British Philippic Mark Akenside, The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside · 96%
Book I Mark Akenside, The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside · 96%
Book I: 1757 Mark Akenside, The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside · 96%
Book II: The Flight of Pompeius Lucan, Pharsalia · 96%
Cadland, Southampton River William Lisle Bowles, Sonnets, and Other Poems · 96%
Sestina I Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · 96%
A Mountain Gateway Bliss Carman, Later Poems · 96%
Book IV: Caesar in Spain. War in the Adriatic Sea. Death of Curio Lucan, Pharsalia · 96%
Book II: 1765 Mark Akenside, The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside · 96%
Enigmas Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · 96%
Solitude Giacomo Leopardi, The Poems of Leopardi · 96%
Book III Mark Akenside, The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside · 96%
Book X: Caesar in Egypt Lucan, Pharsalia · 96%
Book III: 1770 Mark Akenside, The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside · 95%
Book VII: The Battle Lucan, Pharsalia · 95%
Lincoln, the Man of the People Edwin Markham, Lincoln and Other Poems · 95%
Pan in the Catskills Bliss Carman, Later Poems · 95%
Book III: Massilia Lucan, Pharsalia · 95%
Book VIII: Death of Pompeius Lucan, Pharsalia · 95%
Baldrs Draumar: Baldr’s Dreams Anonymous, The Poetic Edda · 95%
Book I: The Crossing of the Rubicon Lucan, Pharsalia · 95%
Book V: The Oracle. The Mutiny. The Storm Lucan, Pharsalia · 95%
Hymn to the Naiads. 1746 Mark Akenside, The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside · 95%
Night Brings Him No Rest. He Is the Prey of Despair Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · 95%
Autumn Bliss Carman, Later Poems · 95%
For a Column at Runnymede Mark Akenside, The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside · 95%
To Rev. ⸺ ⸺ Edmund Clarence Stedman, The Blameless Prince, and Other Poems · 95%
Fragment Henry Kirke White, The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White · 95%
Nelsoni Mors Henry Kirke White, The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White · 95%
Penelope Edmund Clarence Stedman, The Blameless Prince, and Other Poems · 95%
Sketch from Bowden Hill After Sickness William Lisle Bowles, Sonnets, and Other Poems · 95%
The Holiday Night Giacomo Leopardi, The Poems of Leopardi · 95%
The Infinite Giacomo Leopardi, The Poems of Leopardi · 95%
"The Wishing Star" Isabella Valancy Crawford, Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie and Other Poems · 95%
A Connecticut Idyl Edmund Clarence Stedman, The Blameless Prince, and Other Poems · 95%
Helgakvitha Hundingsbana II: The Second Lay of Helgi Hundingsbane V Anonymous, The Poetic Edda · 95%
The Stateman's Creed Edward Young, The Last Day, and Other Poems · 94%
Book VI Lucan, Pharsalia · 94%
The Shipman's Tale Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Sisters' Tragedy, with Other Poems · 94%
Book IX: Cato Lucan, Pharsalia · 94%
The Memories Giacomo Leopardi, The Poems of Leopardi · 94%
Christmas Day Henry Kirke White, The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White · 94%
Sestina III Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · 94%
Whether or Not He Should Cease to Love Laura Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · 94%
Book V William Lisle Bowles, Sonnets, and Other Poems · 94%
Coombe-Ellen William Lisle Bowles, Sonnets, and Other Poems · 94%
The Sylph of Summer William Lisle Bowles, Sonnets, and Other Poems · 94%
Lines Henry Kirke White, The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White · 94%
Angelo William Watson, The Poems of William Watson · 94%
Book I William Lisle Bowles, Sonnets, and Other Poems · 94%
Book IV William Lisle Bowles, Sonnets, and Other Poems · 94%
Sestina V Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · 94%
The Roman Rose-Seller Isabella Valancy Crawford, Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie and Other Poems · 94%
Hymn to the Patriarchs Giacomo Leopardi, The Poems of Leopardi · 94%
The Free Press Edwin Markham, Lincoln and Other Poems · 93%
The History of His Love; and Prayer for Help Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · 93%
Book II William Lisle Bowles, Sonnets, and Other Poems · 93%
Inscribed to the Duke of Newcastle Edward Young, The Last Day, and Other Poems · 93%
On a Landscape by Rubens William Lisle Bowles, Sonnets, and Other Poems · 93%
The New Century Edwin Markham, Lincoln and Other Poems · 93%
July 1786 William Lisle Bowles, Sonnets, and Other Poems · 93%
The Man of Uz L. H. Sigourney, The Man of Uz and Other Poems · 93%
Though Despairing of Pity, He Vows to Love Her unto Death Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · 93%
Brot Af Sigurtharkvithu: Fragment of a Sigurth Lay Anonymous, The Poetic Edda · 93%
Chang Jo-hu Various, A Lute of Jade · 93%
In the Morning Before Daybreak Henry Kirke White, The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White · 93%
Inscribed to the Marquis of Lansdowne William Lisle Bowles, Sonnets, and Other Poems · 93%
The Poet. A Rhapsody Mark Akenside, The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside · 93%
The Gate of Peace Bliss Carman, Later Poems · 93%
To Contemplation Henry Kirke White, The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White · 93%
Mider's Call to Fairy-Land Eleanor Hull, The Poem-Book of the Gael · 93%
A Poem Henry Kirke White, The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White · 93%
Aspasia Giacomo Leopardi, The Poems of Leopardi · 93%
Hamthesmol: The Ballad of Hamther Anonymous, The Poetic Edda · 93%
Alectryôn Edmund Clarence Stedman, The Blameless Prince, and Other Poems · 92%
On Receiving from Him a Copy of "The Life of Shelley" William Watson, The Poems of William Watson · 92%
The Celestial Weaver Various, A Lute of Jade · 92%
Act V Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Sisters' Tragedy, with Other Poems · 92%
Hyndluljoth: The Poem of Hyndla Anonymous, The Poetic Edda · 92%
Fragment of “The Short Voluspo” Anonymous, The Poetic Edda · 92%
To an Early Primrose Henry Kirke White, The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White · 92%
Spirit-Land Various, A Lute of Jade · 92%
To the Virgin Mary Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · 92%
The Poetic Edda: Of Hjorvarth and Sigrlin II Anonymous, The Poetic Edda · 92%
Robert a Machin, 1344 William Lisle Bowles, Sonnets, and Other Poems · 91%
Eating Bamboo-Shoots Various, A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems · 91%
Refuge in Nature Edmund Clarence Stedman, The Blameless Prince, and Other Poems · 91%
Oddrunargratr: The Lament of Oddrun Anonymous, The Poetic Edda · 90%
Völundarkvitha: The Lay of Völund Anonymous, The Poetic Edda · 90%
Part XXVI Anonymous, Beowulf · 90%
Commencement of a Poem on Despair Henry Kirke White, The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White · 90%
Felicity William Watson, The Poems of William Watson · 90%
Inscription for a Monument to the Memory of Cowper Henry Kirke White, The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White · 90%
Autumn Various, A Lute of Jade · 90%
At the Funeral of a Minor Poet Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Sisters' Tragedy, with Other Poems · 90%
Separation Various, A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems · 89%
Winter Bliss Carman, Later Poems · 89%
An Old Battle-field Various, A Lute of Jade · 89%
Morning in the Hills Bliss Carman, Later Poems · 89%
Hymiskvitha: The Lay of Hymir Anonymous, The Poetic Edda · 89%
Pruning Trees Various, A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems · 88%
Part XX Anonymous, Beowulf · 88%
Part XV Anonymous, Beowulf · 88%
Part XXXVIII Anonymous, Beowulf · 88%
Two Poems Various, A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems · 88%
Guthrunarkvitha III: The Third Lay of Guthrun Anonymous, The Poetic Edda · 87%
Part XXXIII Anonymous, Beowulf · 87%
Returning to the Fields Various, A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems · 87%
Dana George William Russell, The Divine Vision and Other Poems · 86%

The first 400 of 583 poems, best-known poets first. The rest are reachable through their poets.

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.