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 6,362 poems
Poems in iambic tetrameter 5,060 poems
Poems in trochaic tetrameter 1,133 poems
Poems in common measure 897 poems
Poems in iambic trimeter 746 poems
Poems in iambic heptameter 283 poems
Poems in anapaestic tetrameter 236 poems
Poems in trochaic trimeter 223 poems
Poems in anapaestic trimeter 218 poems
Poems in iambic hexameter 186 poems
Poems in iambic dimeter 163 poems
Poems in trochaic pentameter 146 poems
Poems in trochaic octameter 104 poems
Poems in short measure 102 poems
Poems in anapaestic dimeter 69 poems
Poems in trochaic hexameter 58 poems
Poems in anapaestic common measure 43 poems
Poems in trochaic heptameter 36 poems
Poems in alexandrines 36 poems
Poems in dactylic pentameter 34 poems
Poems in trochaic dimeter 32 poems
Poems in dactylic dimeter 29 poems
Poems in iambic octameter 29 poems
Poems in dactylic tetrameter 24 poems
Poems in dactylic trimeter 18 poems
Poems in fourteeners 9 poems
Poems in anapaestic pentameter 8 poems
Poems in free verse 6 poems
Poems in dactylic hexameter 4 poems
Poems in poulter's measure 3 poems
Poems in blank verse 694 poems
Heroic couplets 1,421 poems
Rhyming couplets 1,210 poems
Octosyllabic couplets 1,182 poems
Italian sonnets (the Petrarchan sonnet) 557 poems
English sonnets (the Shakespearean sonnet) 293 poems
The Spenserian stanza 177 poems
Ottava rima 64 poems
Limericks 25 poems
Rhyme royal 20 poems
Sonnets 850 poems