Laurel · Poems by form and metre

Short measure

A quatrain of three iambic trimeters and one tetrameter, in the third place: a hymn measure. Below, what the metre is and how to recognise it, then every poem on Laurel measured as short measure, with how closely each keeps it.

What short measure is

A hymn stanza of four lines: three beats, three, four, three, light-then-heavy. Six syllables, six, eight, six.

da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM / da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM / da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM / da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM

How to tell

Count the syllables of a stanza: 6, 6, 8, 6. It is common measure with the first line shortened.

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102 poems on Laurel in short measure

  1. At Home Emily Dickinson, Poems · 100%
  2. Following Emily Dickinson, Poems · 100%
  3. In the Garden Emily Dickinson, Poems · 100%
  4. Lost Joy Emily Dickinson, Poems · 100%
  5. The Contract Emily Dickinson, Poems · 100%
  6. The Master Emily Dickinson, Poems · 100%
  7. The Soul's Storm Emily Dickinson, Poems · 100%
  8. Waiting Emily Dickinson, Poems · 100%
  9. Returning Emily Dickinson, Poems · 99%
  10. Dead Emily Dickinson, Poems · 98%
  11. The Snow Emily Dickinson, Poems · 98%
  12. The Robin Emily Dickinson, Poems · 97%
  13. The Twins Robert Browning, Dramatic Lyrics · 92%
  14. Bonie Peg-a-Ramsay Robert Burns, Poems and Songs · 97%
  15. Bird or Beast? Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market and Other Poems · 98%
  16. Song Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · 100%
  17. Love's Castle Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · 97%
  18. Dreams Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · 96%
  19. The Forest Greeting Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · 96%
  20. An Old Memory Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · 94%
  21. “I Look into My Glass” Thomas Hardy, Wessex Poems and Other Verses · 94%
  22. To Life Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and the Present · 93%
  23. Prelude Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poetical Works · 98%
  24. Birds of Passage Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poetical Works · 95%
  25. Charles Sumner Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poetical Works · 95%
  26. The Mariner G. K. Chesterton, The Wild Knight and Other Poems · 96%
  27. Faithless Walter de la Mare, The Listeners and Other Poems · 100%
  28. Trees Walter de la Mare, Peacock Pie · 95%
  29. Martha Walter de la Mare, The Listeners and Other Poems · 95%
  30. Mrs. MacQueen (or the Lollie-Shop) Walter de la Mare, Peacock Pie · 93%
  31. The Narrow Way Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell · 98%
  32. Confidence Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell · 95%
  33. Warning and Reply Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell · 93%
  34. Three Songs of Shattering II Edna St. Vincent Millay, Renascence and Other Poems · 100%
  35. When the Year Grows Old Edna St. Vincent Millay, Renascence and Other Poems · 93%
  36. If You Should Go Countee Cullen, Color · 92%
  37. The Bishop and the ’Busman W. S. Gilbert, The Bab Ballads · 97%
  38. Listening D. H. Lawrence, Amores · 94%
  39. The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky Vachel Lindsay, The Congo and Other Poems · 98%
  40. Written for a Musician Vachel Lindsay, The Congo and Other Poems · 96%
  41. Debt Sara Teasdale, Love Songs · 100%
  42. The Tree Sara Teasdale, Flame and Shadow · 98%
  43. Day and Night Sara Teasdale, Flame and Shadow · 96%
  44. Other Men Sara Teasdale, Love Songs · 96%
  45. Houses of Dreams Sara Teasdale, Love Songs · 90%
  46. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume I: Part III: Ballad II: The Aged Lover Renounceth Love Thomas Percy, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume I · 100%
  47. Robyn and Gandelyn Arthur Quiller-Couch, The Oxford Book of Ballads · 100%
  48. The Queen of Elfland’s Nourice Arthur Quiller-Couch, The Oxford Book of Ballads · 99%
  49. Lamkin Arthur Quiller-Couch, The Oxford Book of Ballads · 98%
  50. By a Gentleman of the Footguards (Blue) William Makepeace Thackeray, Ballads · 98%
  51. The Boy and the Mantle Francis James Child, English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I · 97%
  52. The Boy and the Mantle Arthur Quiller-Couch, The Oxford Book of Ballads · 97%
  53. As Now Performed at Christmas, in the County of Durham Robert Bell, Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England · 95%
  54. Judas Arthur Quiller-Couch, The Oxford Book of Ballads · 95%
  55. The Cherry-Tree Carol Arthur Quiller-Couch, The Oxford Book of Ballads · 95%
  56. A Sweet Pastoral Nicholas Breton, Pastoral Poems and Selected Poetry · 95%
  57. The Lost One Various, A Lute of Jade · 95%
  58. The Carnal and the Crane Arthur Quiller-Couch, The Oxford Book of Ballads · 94%
  59. The World Voice Bliss Carman, Later Poems · 94%
  60. The Path to Sankoty Bliss Carman, Later Poems · 94%
  61. Weather of the Soul Bliss Carman, Later Poems · 93%
  62. Teach Me, o Trinity Eleanor Hull, The Poem-Book of the Gael · 89%

The first 62 of 102 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.