Iambic hexameter

Six iambs to the line, twelve syllables: the alexandrine, which closes the Spenserian stanza and is the standard line of French verse. Below, what the metre is and how to recognise it, then every poem on Laurel measured as iambic hexameter, with how closely each keeps it.

186 poems on Laurel in iambic hexameter

1. Sonnet LXXXVII William Shakespeare, The Sonnets · 100%
2. Sonnet XX William Shakespeare, The Sonnets · 98%
3. Fragment: "Igniculus Desiderii" Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Poetical Works, Volume II · 100%
4. Queries to My Seventieth Year Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass · 95%
5. To the Man-of-War-Bird Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass · 92%
6. Orange Buds by Mail from Florida Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass · 92%
7. An Ended Day Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass · 86%
8. Broadway Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass · 84%
9. While Not the Past Forgetting Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass · 82%
10. Continuities Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass · 69%
11. Mowing Robert Frost, A Boy's Will · 90%
12. The Valley's Singing Day Robert Frost, New Hampshire · 82%
13. Transcriber Changes Robert Frost, Mountain Interval · 73%
14. Morning at the Window T. S. Eliot, Prufrock and Other Observations · 91%
15. Berket and the Stars William Carlos Williams, Sour Grapes · 70%
16. The Three Poets Ezra Pound, Lustra · 93%
17. South-Folk in Cold Country Ezra Pound, Lustra · 84%
18. The Magi W. B. Yeats, Responsibilities · 95%
19. A Cradle Song W. B. Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds · 92%
20. Hanrahan Speaks to the Lovers of His Songs in Coming Days W. B. Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds · 92%
21. Down by the Salley Gardens W. B. Yeats, Poems · 91%
22. The Cold Heaven W. B. Yeats, Responsibilities · 91%
23. Paudeen W. B. Yeats, Responsibilities · 89%
24. Aedh Tells of a Valley Full of Lovers W. B. Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds · 87%
25. The Lake Isle of Innisfree W. B. Yeats, Poems · 80%
26. Michael Robartes Bids His Beloved Be at Peace W. B. Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds · 79%
27. The Travail of Passion W. B. Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds · 77%
28. The Ballad of Oriana Alfred Tennyson, The Early Poems · 97%
29. Maud Part II VI Alfred Tennyson, Poems · 89%
30. Kirk and State Excisemen Robert Burns, Poems and Songs · 95%
31. The Posie Robert Burns, Poems and Songs · 90%
32. The Winter It Is Past Robert Burns, Poems and Songs · 88%
33. There Was a Bonie Lass Robert Burns, Poems and Songs · 88%
34. What Would I Give? Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market and Other Poems · 86%
35. Peace Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems · 100%
36. Caged Skylark Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems · 97%
37. The Song of the Banjo Rudyard Kipling, Verses 1889–1896 · 96%
38. Exposure II Wilfred Owen, Poems · 94%
39. Exposure I Wilfred Owen, Poems · 84%
40. Strafe Ivor Gurney, Severn and Somme · 100%
41. Requiem Ivor Gurney, Severn and Somme · 97%
42. The Strong Thing Ivor Gurney, Severn and Somme · 97%
43. To an Unknown Lady Ivor Gurney, Severn and Somme · 87%
44. Pirate Story Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses · 72%
45. The West Wind John Masefield, Salt-Water Ballads · 88%
46. Trade Winds John Masefield, Salt-Water Ballads · 85%
47. The Mocking Fairy Walter de la Mare, Peacock Pie · 93%
48. The Old Stone House Walter de la Mare, Peacock Pie · 84%
49. Indifference Edna St. Vincent Millay, Renascence and Other Poems · 96%
50. O Word I Love to Sing Claude McKay, Harlem Shadows · 96%
51. Emblems of Conduct Hart Crane, White Buildings · 81%
52. To a Steam Roller Marianne Moore, Poems · 71%
53. A Dialogue. Lute and Voice Richard Lovelace, Lucasta · 97%
54. Female Glory Richard Lovelace, Lucasta · 94%
55. The Prayer Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple and Other Poems · 90%
56. Clinton Thomas Chatterton, The Rowley Poems · 100%
57. Herehaulde Thomas Chatterton, The Rowley Poems · 100%
58. 730. Charon and Philomel; a Dialogue Sung Robert Herrick, Hesperides · 86%
59. Sonnet 8 Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella · 100%
60. Song 3 Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella · 99%
61. Sonnet 6 Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella · 96%
62. Sonnet 75 Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella · 96%
63. Sonnet 101 Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella · 96%
64. Song 5 Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella · 95%
65. Sonnet 1 Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella · 95%
66. Sonnet 76 Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella · 92%
67. Silvivs, Halcivs, Melanthvs Michael Drayton, Minor Poems · 96%
68. The Dug-Out Siegfried Sassoon, The War Poems · 94%
69. Twelve Months After Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-Attack and Other Poems · 92%
70. Twelve Months After Siegfried Sassoon, The War Poems · 92%
71. Wirers Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-Attack and Other Poems · 88%
72. Wirers Siegfried Sassoon, The War Poems · 88%
73. The Poet in the Nursery Robert Graves, Fairies and Fusiliers · 91%
74. The Busy Heart Rupert Brooke, 1914 and Other Poems · 82%
75. The Phantom Curate. a Fable W. S. Gilbert, The Bab Ballads · 92%
76. The Pantomime “Super” to His Mask W. S. Gilbert, The Bab Ballads · 90%
77. Elegy D. H. Lawrence, Amores · 96%
78. Malade D. H. Lawrence, Amores · 90%
79. Troth with the Dead D. H. Lawrence, Amores · 88%
80. Brother and Sister D. H. Lawrence, Amores · 87%
81. Scent of Irises D. H. Lawrence, Amores · 86%
82. A Baby Running Barefoot D. H. Lawrence, Amores · 84%
83. On a Dead Child Robert Bridges, Poetical Works · 86%
84. The Voice of Nature Robert Bridges, Poetical Works · 80%
85. Ode Robert Bridges, Poetical Works · 79%
86. Scazons Robert Bridges, Poetical Works · 77%
87. Seasons Robert Bridges, Poetical Works · 76%
88. A Passer-By Robert Bridges, Poetical Works · 74%
89. Seraphita Ernest Dowson, The Poems of Ernest Dowson · 94%
90. Epigram Ernest Dowson, The Poems of Ernest Dowson · 93%
91. Venite Descendamus Ernest Dowson, The Poems of Ernest Dowson · 84%
92. Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae Ernest Dowson, The Poems of Ernest Dowson · 78%
93. Russian Sonia Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology · 92%
94. Joseph Dixon Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology · 85%
95. Wallace Ferguson Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology · 82%
96. Elliott Hawkins Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology · 79%
97. Webster Ford Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology · 76%
98. The Perfect Marriage Vachel Lindsay, The Congo and Other Poems · 87%
99. I Shall Not Care Sara Teasdale, Love Songs · 100%
100. If Death Is Kind Sara Teasdale, Flame and Shadow · 100%
101. The Lamp Sara Teasdale, Love Songs · 100%
102. The Long Hill Sara Teasdale, Flame and Shadow · 93%
103. Water Lilies Sara Teasdale, Flame and Shadow · 84%
104. The Gods Are Dead W. E. Henley, Poems · 94%
105. To D. H W. E. Henley, Poems · 91%
106. A Letter from a Girl to Her Own Old Age Alice Meynell, Poems · 94%
107. To the Rev. Percy Dearmer Lionel Johnson, Poems · 98%
108. Jour Des Morts (Cimetière Montparnasse) Charlotte Mew, The Farmer's Bride · 97%
109. Child and Flower Louise Imogen Guiney, Songs at the Start · 100%
110. From Generation to Generation Henry John Newbolt, Poems: New and Old · 100%
111. The Marriage of the Cid's Daughters XCIV Anonymous, The Lay of the Cid · 100%
112. Harrington Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · 99%
113. The Lover's Parting John Addington Symonds, Wine, Women and Song · 97%
114. Prayer to the Father of Heauen John Skelton, Poetical Works, Volume I · 97%
115. At One George William Russell, The Divine Vision and Other Poems · 97%
116. To the Holy Gooste John Skelton, Poetical Works, Volume I · 97%
117. Fairy Days William Makepeace Thackeray, Ballads · 96%
118. Illness Various, A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems · 95%
119. On Mr. Sargent's Dramatic Poem, the Mine Anna Seward, Original Sonnets on Various Subjects · 95%
120. A Farewell George William Russell, The Divine Vision and Other Poems · 94%
121. Macgregor Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · 94%
122. An Ancient Cornish Song Robert Bell, Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England · 93%
123. Hawke Henry John Newbolt, Poems: New and Old · 93%
124. Going to the Mountains with a Little Dancing Girl, Aged Fifteen Various, A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems · 93%
125. Poeta Skelton John Skelton, Poetical Works, Volume I · 93%
126. To the Seconde Parson John Skelton, Poetical Works, Volume I · 92%
127. An Epic Poem, in Twenty Books VI William Makepeace Thackeray, Ballads · 92%
128. Only Robert Bell, Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England · 92%
129. Bonnie Annie Arthur Quiller-Couch, The Oxford Book of Ballads · 92%
130. The Child of Destiny George William Russell, The Divine Vision and Other Poems · 92%
131. Skelton Poeta John Skelton, Poetical Works, Volume I · 92%
132. Dialogue of the Poet with His Heart Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems · 91%
133. The Affront of Corpes CXXVIII Anonymous, The Lay of the Cid · 90%
134. Poems of the Dark Days Eleanor Hull, The Poem-Book of the Gael · 90%
135. Lord Delaware (Traditional.) Robert Bell, Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England · 89%
136. The Banishment of the Cid LVI Anonymous, The Lay of the Cid · 89%
137. A Call of the Sidhe George William Russell, The Divine Vision and Other Poems · 89%
138. Poem XVIII Edmund Clarence Stedman, The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman · 88%
139. Commemoration Henry John Newbolt, Poems: New and Old · 88%
140. The Lamentable Ballad of the Foundling of Shoreditch William Makepeace Thackeray, Ballads · 88%
141. The Banishment of the Cid XXXVIII Anonymous, The Lay of the Cid · 88%
142. To His Lady Garcilaso de la Vega, The Works of Garcilasso de la Vega · 88%
143. The Masonic Hymn Robert Bell, Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England · 88%
144. He Fell Among Thieves Henry John Newbolt, Poems: New and Old · 87%
145. The Wolfe New Ballad of Jane Roney and Mary Brown William Makepeace Thackeray, Ballads · 87%
146. By Tso Ssŭ Various, A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems · 86%
147. Ballad of the Western Island in the North Country Various, A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems · 86%
148. The Marriage of the Cid's Daughters XCVII Anonymous, The Lay of the Cid · 85%
149. By Yüan Chieh Various, A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems · 85%
150. Meeting in the Road Various, A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems · 84%
151. A Gentle Wind Various, A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems · 84%
152. The Affront of Corpes CXXV Anonymous, The Lay of the Cid · 84%
153. Continuation of Various, A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems · 83%
154. The Curtain of the Wedding Bed Various, A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems · 83%
155. The Marriage of the Cid's Daughters LXXVI Anonymous, The Lay of the Cid · 82%
156. Craven (Mobile Bay, 1864) Henry John Newbolt, Poems: New and Old · 82%
157. The Guides at Cabul Henry John Newbolt, Poems: New and Old · 82%
158. Compared with the Ashmole Copy Thomas Percy, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume I · 82%
159. Madly Singing in the Mountains Various, A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems · 81%
160. The Desecration of the Han Tombs Various, A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems · 81%
161. The Cattle-Shed Eleanor Hull, The Poem-Book of the Gael · 81%
162. The Chinese Methuselah Various, A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems · 78%
163. The Affront of Corpes CXXIII Anonymous, The Lay of the Cid · 77%
164. The Banishment of the Cid LI Anonymous, The Lay of the Cid · 75%
165. Out of Frenshe into Latyn John Skelton, Poetical Works, Volume I · 75%

The first 165 of 186 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.