Laurel · Poems by form and metre

Limericks

Five lines rhyming AABBA, the third and fourth short: the stanza Edward Lear made his own. Below, every poem or stanza on Laurel whose rhyme scheme and length are exactly this form.

25 poems on Laurel

  1. Ye Jacobites by Name Robert Burns, Poems and Songs · AABBA
  2. Long Barren Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market and Other Poems · AABBA
  3. Twilight Calm Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market and Other Poems · AABBA
  4. The Poet and the Baby Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · AABBA
  5. To Outer Nature Thomas Hardy, Wessex Poems and Other Verses · AABBA
  6. The Rainy Day Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poetical Works · AABBA
  7. The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poetical Works · AABBA
  8. Song Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poetical Works · AABBA
  9. Sundown Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poetical Works · AABBA
  10. 661. Upon Jone and Jane Robert Herrick, Hesperides · AABBA
  11. 619. The Night-Piece, to Julia Robert Herrick, Hesperides · AABBA
  12. The Story of Prince Agib W. S. Gilbert, The Bab Ballads · AABBA
  13. When the wind storms by with a shout, and the stern… W. E. Henley, Poems · AABBA
  14. Parted Alice Meynell, Poems · AABBA
  15. San Lorenzo Giustiniani's Mother Alice Meynell, Poems · AABBA
  16. The Poet Sings to Her Poet Alice Meynell, Poems · AABBA
  17. A Song of Derivations Alice Meynell, Poems · AABBA
  18. Song Alice Meynell, Poems · AABBA
  19. Two Gardens in Linndale Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Town Down the River · AABBA
  20. Special Pleading Sidney Lanier, Poems · AABBA
  21. The Vow to Cupid John Addington Symonds, Wine, Women and Song · AABBA
  22. Tempest on the Sea Eleanor Hull, The Poem-Book of the Gael · AABBA
  23. Vestigia Bliss Carman, Later Poems · AABBA
  24. A Jacobite Revival Louise Imogen Guiney, Songs at the Start · AABBA
  25. Liberty Rejected William Watson, The Poems of William Watson · AABBA

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.