Poems by form and metre

Every poem on Laurel was scanned from its own words and its rhymes lettered from a pronouncing dictionary. These pages gather the poems by what that found: the metre a poem keeps, and the stanza forms its rhyme scheme spells out. How verse works explains the terms; the methods explain the measuring.

Poems in iambic pentameter 9,678 poems
Poems in iambic tetrameter 7,669 poems
Poems in trochaic tetrameter 1,717 poems
Poems in iambic trimeter 1,277 poems
Poems in common measure 1,205 poems
Poems in anapaestic tetrameter 671 poems
Poems in iambic heptameter 435 poems
Poems in trochaic trimeter 323 poems
Poems in iambic hexameter 307 poems
Poems in anapaestic trimeter 293 poems
Poems in trochaic pentameter 237 poems
Poems in iambic dimeter 205 poems
Poems in short measure 137 poems
Poems in trochaic octameter 131 poems
Poems in anapaestic dimeter 127 poems
Poems in trochaic hexameter 101 poems
Poems in alexandrines 66 poems
Poems in anapaestic common measure 63 poems
Poems in trochaic heptameter 50 poems
Poems in trochaic dimeter 48 poems
Poems in iambic octameter 47 poems
Poems in dactylic dimeter 43 poems
Poems in dactylic pentameter 39 poems
Poems in dactylic tetrameter 37 poems
Poems in dactylic trimeter 32 poems
Poems in anapaestic pentameter 26 poems
Poems in fourteeners 13 poems
Poems in anapaestic hexameter 8 poems
Poems in free verse 6 poems
Poems in poulter's measure 3 poems
Poems in blank verse 583 poems
Heroic couplets 1,989 poems
Rhyming couplets 1,813 poems
Octosyllabic couplets 1,751 poems
Italian sonnets (the Petrarchan sonnet) 582 poems
English sonnets (the Shakespearean sonnet) 403 poems
The Spenserian stanza 200 poems
Ottava rima 82 poems
Rhyme royal 38 poems
Limericks 31 poems
Sonnets 985 poems