Laurel · Poems by form and metre

Trochaic heptameter

Seven trochees to the line, the stress falling first. Below, what the metre is and how to recognise it, then every poem on Laurel measured as trochaic heptameter, with how closely each keeps it.

What trochaic heptameter is

Seven beats to the line, heavy then light: fourteen syllables or thirteen. Rare; it reads like a line of the Raven with a foot cut off.

DUM-da DUM-da DUM-da DUM-da DUM-da DUM-da DUM-da

How to tell

Thirteen or fourteen syllables starting heavy. Ask whether the poet has printed eight-beat lines with the last foot missing.

Paste a poem of your own and Laurel will say whether it is in trochaic heptameter, stanza by stanza. How to scan a line.

36 poems on Laurel in trochaic heptameter

  1. Thel IV William Blake, Poems of William Blake · 87%
  2. Carmen LXXXVI: Of Quintia Catullus, The Carmina · 89%
  3. Latin Poems and Translations John Donne, Poems · 96%
  4. Felix Randal Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems · 81%
  5. Faith Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · 100%
  6. De Critters' Dance Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · 98%
  7. Love's Seasons Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · 93%
  8. The Quilting Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · 86%
  9. Loot Rudyard Kipling, Barrack-Room Ballads · 95%
  10. To My Name-Child Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses · 93%
  11. One of Wally’s Yarns John Masefield, Salt-Water Ballads · 95%
  12. D’Avalos’ Prayer John Masefield, Salt-Water Ballads · 93%
  13. Ashes of Life Edna St. Vincent Millay, Renascence and Other Poems · 93%
  14. Sanazari Hexasticon Richard Lovelace, Lucasta · 100%
  15. Auson Richard Lovelace, Lucasta · 92%
  16. Item Richard Lovelace, Lucasta · 92%
  17. Avieni V. C. Ad Amicos Richard Lovelace, Lucasta · 82%
  18. A Baby's Epitaph Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poems and Ballads · 100%
  19. The Armada I Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poems and Ballads · 95%
  20. A Morn of May Jean Ingelow, Poems, Volume I · 100%
  21. To the Good Old-Fashioned People James Whitcomb Riley, Riley Farm-Rhymes · 100%
  22. Romancin' James Whitcomb Riley, Riley Farm-Rhymes · 98%
  23. July in Georgy James Weldon Johnson, Fifty Years and Other Poems · 98%
  24. The Organ-Boy's Appeal William Makepeace Thackeray, Ballads · 94%
  25. The Joy of Earth George William Russell, The Divine Vision and Other Poems · 94%
  26. The Marriage of the Cid's Daughters CX Anonymous, The Lay of the Cid · 94%
  27. Of Divine Love. a Poem in Six Cantos Edmund Waller, Poetical Works · 91%
  28. By the Margin of the Great Deep George William Russell, Poems · 91%
  29. An Answer by Sheridan Jonathan Swift, Poems, Volume II · 90%
  30. The Banishment of the Cid XXXI Anonymous, The Lay of the Cid · 90%
  31. The Well of All Healing George William Russell, The Divine Vision and Other Poems · 90%
  32. For] Not in MS John Skelton, Poetical Works, Volume I · 85%
  33. Time’s Song Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Poems · 83%
  34. O come quickly! Thomas Campion, Poems · 82%
  35. Remembrance George William Russell, The Divine Vision and Other Poems · 79%
  36. Hymn to the Virgin Mary Eleanor Hull, The Poem-Book of the Gael · 75%

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.