Laurel · Poems by form and metre

Trochaic hexameter

Six 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 hexameter, with how closely each keeps it.

What trochaic hexameter is

Six beats to the line, heavy then light: DUM-da six times, twelve syllables or eleven. Uncommon; it is usually a trochaic octameter that has been printed with its second half on the next line.

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

How to tell

Eleven or twelve syllables starting on a heavy one.

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

58 poems on Laurel in trochaic hexameter

  1. Catullian Hendecasyllables Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poems of Coleridge · 87%
  2. The Delicacies William Carlos Williams, Sour Grapes · 84%
  3. By Rihaku Ezra Pound, Cathay · 94%
  4. Wee Willie Gray Robert Burns, Poems and Songs · 87%
  5. Harry Ploughman Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems · 99%
  6. "Howdy, Honey, Howdy!" Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · 100%
  7. A Death Song Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · 100%
  8. The Poet and the Baby Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · 99%
  9. The Deserted Plantation Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · 98%
  10. Curiosity Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · 98%
  11. My Sweet Brown Gal Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · 98%
  12. When a Feller's Itchin' to Be Spanked Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · 97%
  13. The Colored Band Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · 97%
  14. A Florida Night Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · 92%
  15. “Birds of Prey” March Rudyard Kipling, Verses 1889–1896 · 92%
  16. The Jacket Rudyard Kipling, Barrack-Room Ballads · 88%
  17. The Ballad of the “Bolivar” Rudyard Kipling, Verses 1889–1896 · 88%
  18. IL Ponte Vecchio Di Firenze Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poetical Works · 94%
  19. The Female God Isaac Rosenberg, Poems · 88%
  20. Cardigan Bay John Masefield, Salt-Water Ballads · 84%
  21. Cavalier John Masefield, Salt-Water Ballads · 81%
  22. The Song of the Soldiers Walter de la Mare, Peacock Pie · 100%
  23. The Visionary Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell · 84%
  24. Pastorals V George Meredith, Poems, Volume I · 85%
  25. Three Songs of Shattering III Edna St. Vincent Millay, Renascence and Other Poems · 88%
  26. De Scaevola Richard Lovelace, Lucasta · 100%
  27. In Rufum. Catul. Ep. 64 Richard Lovelace, Lucasta · 100%
  28. Ad Lesbiam, Cat. Ep. 73 Richard Lovelace, Lucasta · 95%
  29. The Prayer Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple and Other Poems · 93%
  30. Herawde Thomas Chatterton, The Rowley Poems · 100%
  31. Sassoon the Man Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-Attack and Other Poems · 90%
  32. Dissolute D. H. Lawrence, Amores · 81%
  33. A Word with the Wind Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poems and Ballads · 97%
  34. A Ballad of Bath Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poems and Ballads · 85%
  35. Verses Ernest Dowson, The Poems of Ernest Dowson · 98%
  36. Edith Conant Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology · 85%
  37. Thomas Trevelyan Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology · 82%
  38. The Flight Sara Teasdale, Love Songs · 96%
  39. Sunset: St. Louis Sara Teasdale, Flame and Shadow · 92%
  40. The Nights Remember Sara Teasdale, Flame and Shadow · 86%
  41. Stars Joyce Kilmer, Trees and Other Poems · 82%
  42. Life is bitter. All the faces of the years W. E. Henley, Poems · 100%
  43. In the year that’s come and gone, love, his flying feather W. E. Henley, Poems · 82%
  44. Veni Creator Alice Meynell, Poems · 95%
  45. Sonnet Alice Meynell, Poems · 94%
  46. The Love of God.—(From the Provencal of Bernard Rascas.) William Cullen Bryant, Poems · 97%
  47. Laureati Skeltonidis in Despectu Malignantium Distichon John Skelton, Poetical Works, Volume I · 100%
  48. Thomæ Coriato De Odcombe Richard Corbet, Poems · 94%
  49. In Bedel, Quondam Belial Incarnatum, Devotum Epitaphium John Skelton, Poetical Works, Volume I · 94%
  50. The Old Familiar Faces Charles Lamb, Poems · 94%
  51. Sonnets Henry Timrod, Poems · 92%
  52. Sailing at Dawn Henry John Newbolt, Poems: New and Old · 92%
  53. “In Clarissimi Scheltonis Louaniensis Poetæ Laudes Epigramma John Skelton, Poetical Works, Volume I · 92%
  54. In Connemara George William Russell, The Divine Vision and Other Poems · 92%
  55. Song George Darley, Poems · 91%
  56. Song of the Men of Chin-Ling (Marching Back into the Capital) Various, A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems · 83%
  57. The Rejected Wife Various, A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems · 79%
  58. On Contempt for the World John Addington Symonds, Wine, Women and Song · 76%

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.