Trochaic trimeter

Three 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 trimeter, with how closely each keeps it.

What trochaic trimeter is

Three beats to the line, heavy then light: DUM-da three times, six syllables or five. A short falling line, the shape of many songs.

DUM-da DUM-da DUM-da

HAIL to THEE, blithe SPIR-it
Shelley, To a Skylark; the beats in capitals

How to tell

Lines that start heavy and run five or six syllables. Shelley’s Skylark stanza is four of these and an alexandrine.

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

323 poems on Laurel in trochaic trimeter

To a Skylark Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind, and Other Poems · 97%
The Blossom William Blake, Poems of William Blake · 100%
The Blossom William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience · 100%
The Little Girl Lost William Blake, Poems of William Blake · 99%
A Little Girl Lost William Blake, Poems of William Blake · 99%
A Little Girl Lost William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience · 99%
The Little Girl Lost William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience · 98%
Apotheosis Emily Dickinson, Poems · 100%
With Flowers Emily Dickinson, Poems · 100%
A Country Burial Emily Dickinson, Poems · 96%
The Coming of Night Emily Dickinson, Poems · 96%
Death Emily Dickinson, Poems · 94%
The Test Emily Dickinson, Poems · 94%
Rouge Et Noir Emily Dickinson, Poems · 94%
Eternity Emily Dickinson, Poems · 92%
The Forgotten Grave Emily Dickinson, Poems · 91%
Alter? When the hills do Emily Dickinson, Poems
Before the ice is in the pools Emily Dickinson, Poems
Far from love the Heavenly Father Emily Dickinson, Poems
Lew Sarrett's Many Many Moons Robert Frost, Mountain Interval · 89%
A Cuban Portrait Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues · 100%
Danse Africaine Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues · 100%
Pierrot Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues · 100%
When Sue Wears Red Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues · 100%
Young Bride Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues · 100%
Young Prostitute Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues · 100%
Song for a Banjo Dance Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues · 98%
To a Little Lover-Lass, Dead Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues · 97%
Troubled Woman Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues · 97%
Poem Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues · 97%
As I Grew Older Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues · 97%
The Jester Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues · 96%
Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock Wallace Stevens, Harmonium · 93%
Third Girl Wallace Stevens, Harmonium · 91%
Life Is Motion Wallace Stevens, Harmonium · 90%
Portrait of a Young Man with a Bad Heart William Carlos Williams, Al Que Quiere! · 97%
The Nightingales William Carlos Williams, Sour Grapes · 96%
Conquest William Carlos Williams, Al Que Quiere! · 96%
Love Song William Carlos Williams, Al Que Quiere! · 95%
Promenade William Carlos Williams, Al Que Quiere! · 95%
Daisy William Carlos Williams, Sour Grapes · 94%
The Thinker William Carlos Williams, Sour Grapes · 94%
The Widow's Lament in Springtime William Carlos Williams, Sour Grapes · 94%
Light Hearted William William Carlos Williams, Sour Grapes · 94%
Good Night William Carlos Williams, Al Que Quiere! · 93%
Virtue William Carlos Williams, Al Que Quiere! · 93%
The Old Men William Carlos Williams, Al Que Quiere! · 93%
Sub Terra William Carlos Williams, Al Que Quiere! · 92%
Pastoral William Carlos Williams, Al Que Quiere! · 91%
Love Song William Carlos Williams, Al Que Quiere! · 90%
Apology William Carlos Williams, Al Que Quiere! · 90%
March William Carlos Williams, Sour Grapes · 88%
Arrival William Carlos Williams, Sour Grapes · 80%
Famam Librosque Cano Ezra Pound, Personae · 99%
Envoi Ezra Pound, Personae · 96%
Surgit Fama Ezra Pound, Lustra · 90%
A Friend's Illness W. B. Yeats, Responsibilities · 100%
Maud XVII Alfred Tennyson, Maud, and Other Poems · 100%
Maud XII Alfred Tennyson, Maud, and Other Poems · 91%
Song (“Every day hath its night”) Alfred Tennyson, The Early Poems
Hey, the Dusty Miller Robert Burns, Poems and Songs · 100%
Jamie, Come Try Me Robert Burns, Poems and Songs · 100%
Song.—On Chloris Being ILL Robert Burns, Poems and Songs · 97%
Schoolmaster of Cleish Parish, Fifeshire Robert Burns, Poems and Songs · 91%
A Chill Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market and Other Poems · 100%
Spring Quiet Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market and Other Poems · 97%
Jesus, Do I Love Thee? Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market and Other Poems · 97%
A Bird's-Eye View Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market and Other Poems · 94%
Winter Rain Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market and Other Poems · 89%
A Frolic Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · 100%
A Grievance Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · 100%
A Summer Night Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · 100%
A Warm Day in Winter Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · 100%
Blue Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · 100%
Noon Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · 100%
The Boogah Man Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · 100%
Wadin' in De Crick Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · 100%
Spring Fever Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · 99%
Chrismus Is A-Comin' Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · 99%
Advice Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · 99%
Jealous Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems · 99%
The Sergeant's Weddin' Rudyard Kipling, Barrack-Room Ballads · 100%
“Mary, Pity Women!” Rudyard Kipling, Verses 1889–1896 · 97%
The Sergeant's Weddin' Rudyard Kipling, Verses 1889–1896 · 97%
The Flowers Rudyard Kipling, Verses 1889–1896 · 94%
The Bee Boy's Song Rudyard Kipling, Songs from Books
To Outer Nature Thomas Hardy, Wessex Poems and Other Verses · 99%
A Death-Day Recalled Thomas Hardy, Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries
Everything Comes Thomas Hardy, Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses
Old Excursions Thomas Hardy, Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses
On a Midsummer Eve Thomas Hardy, Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses
Postscript, “Men Who March Away”, (Song of the Soldiers) Thomas Hardy, Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries
St. Launce’s Revisited Thomas Hardy, Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries
The Haunter Thomas Hardy, Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries
The Man with a Past Thomas Hardy, Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses
Then and Now Thomas Hardy, Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses
“Men Who March Away” (Song of the Soldiers) Thomas Hardy, Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses
Song Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life, and Other Poems · 100%
A Christmas Carol Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life, and Other Poems · 98%
Queen Thyri and the Angelica Stalks Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life, and Other Poems · 98%
Song of the Bell Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life, and Other Poems · 94%
Hermes Trismegistus Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life, and Other Poems · 94%
The Wave Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life, and Other Poems · 92%
Curfew I Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life, and Other Poems · 91%
Santa Teresa's Book-Mark (Letrilla Que Llevaba Por Registro En Su Breviario) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life, and Other Poems · 77%
Evening Song Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christus: A Mystery
Autumn Fires Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses · 98%
Envoys Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses · 93%
Where Go the Boats? Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses · 92%
Hide and Seek Walter de la Mare, Peacock Pie · 100%
Cake and Sack Walter de la Mare, Peacock Pie · 98%
Dream Song Walter de la Mare, Peacock Pie · 97%
All That's Past Walter de la Mare, The Listeners and Other Poems · 92%
Time Passes Walter de la Mare, The Listeners and Other Poems · 86%
The Two Children Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell · 92%
The Flower of the Ruins George Meredith, Modern Love, and Other Poems · 98%
Three Songs of Shattering I Edna St. Vincent Millay, Renascence and Other Poems · 100%
205. To Violets Robert Herrick, Hesperides · 100%
Borrill Michael Drayton, Minor Poems · 95%
John Skelton Robert Graves, Fairies and Fusiliers · 87%
In a Garden Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poems and Ballads · 100%
A Rhyme Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poems and Ballads · 98%
Baby-Bird Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poems and Ballads · 90%
IV. A Carrier Song Francis Thompson, Poems (1893) · 85%
The Black Hawk War of the Artists Vachel Lindsay, The Congo and Other Poems · 96%
Moving-picture Actress Vachel Lindsay, The Congo and Other Poems · 95%
The Firemen's Ball Vachel Lindsay, The Congo and Other Poems
Redbirds Sara Teasdale, Flame and Shadow · 100%
The Treasure Sara Teasdale, Flame and Shadow · 100%
New Love and Old Sara Teasdale, Love Songs · 98%
"Like Barley Bending" Sara Teasdale, Flame and Shadow
Ballade of Dead Friends Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Children of the Night · 100%
Sea Iris II H.D., Sea Garden · 100%
Sea Rose H.D., Sea Garden · 100%
Poem II H.D., Sea Garden · 99%
The Shrine ("She Watches Over the Sea") III H.D., Sea Garden · 98%
Acon I H.D., Sea Garden · 97%
Huntress H.D., Sea Garden · 96%
Sea Iris I H.D., Sea Garden · 94%
Sheltered Garden H.D., Sea Garden · 93%
Sea Violet H.D., Sea Garden · 88%
Lais H.D., Heliodora, and Other Poems
Sappho H.D., Heliodora, and Other Poems
The Lumbermen John Greenleaf Whittier, Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform
Old Man's Nursery Rhyme James Whitcomb Riley, Riley Farm-Rhymes · 99%
On the Sunny Side James Whitcomb Riley, Riley Child-Rhymes
The Pixy People James Whitcomb Riley, Riley Child-Rhymes
The Lee Shore Thomas Hood, The Song of the Shirt, and Other Poems
Verses in an Album Thomas Hood, The Song of the Shirt, and Other Poems
'Possum Song James Weldon Johnson, Fifty Years and Other Poems · 94%
The Lottery Girl James Weldon Johnson, Fifty Years and Other Poems · 84%
At Sunrise Bliss Carman, Later Poems · 100%
Ballad XVI Thomas Percy, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume I · 100%
En Parlament a Paris John Skelton, Colyn Cloute, and Other Poems · 100%
In the Day of Battle Bliss Carman, Later Poems · 100%
Lines for a Picture Bliss Carman, Later Poems · 100%
Poem V Hafiz, Poems from the Divan of Hafiz · 100%
Poem VII John Addington Symonds, Wine, Women and Song · 100%
Poem XI John Addington Symonds, Wine, Women and Song · 100%
Woodland Rain Bliss Carman, Later Poems · 99%
Phyllis John Addington Symonds, Wine, Women and Song · 99%
Nike Bliss Carman, Later Poems · 98%
Fuit Ilium Edmund Clarence Stedman, The Blameless Prince, and Other Poems · 98%
Roger-Bontemps William Makepeace Thackeray, Ballads · 98%
To His Serving Boy William Makepeace Thackeray, Ballads · 98%
There's No Lust Like to Poetry John Addington Symonds, Wine, Women and Song · 98%
Pensitate John Skelton, Colyn Cloute, and Other Poems · 97%
Willie Macintosh Arthur Quiller-Couch, The Oxford Book of Ballads · 97%
At Twilight Bliss Carman, Later Poems · 97%
The Key-Board William Watson, The Poems of William Watson · 97%
Roses in Madrid Isabella Valancy Crawford, Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie and Other Poems · 97%
The Love-Letter in Spring John Addington Symonds, Wine, Women and Song · 97%
Poem X John Addington Symonds, Wine, Women and Song · 96%
Epithaphe John Skelton, Colyn Cloute, and Other Poems · 96%
Garden Shadows Bliss Carman, Later Poems · 96%
Peg of Limavaddy William Makepeace Thackeray, Ballads · 96%
A New England June Bliss Carman, Later Poems · 96%
The Barley-Mow Song (Suffolk Version.) Robert Bell, Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England · 96%
Lo and Lu Louise Imogen Guiney, Songs at the Start · 95%
Douglas Hyde Eleanor Hull, The Poem-Book of the Gael · 95%
Light and Dark George William Russell, The Divine Vision and Other Poems · 94%
Hail to Thee, o Mary Eleanor Hull, The Poem-Book of the Gael · 94%
Come to the Greenwood Tree William Makepeace Thackeray, Ballads · 92%
A Carol of Wine John Addington Symonds, Wine, Women and Song · 91%
March Isabella Valancy Crawford, Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie and Other Poems · 91%
The Poet Louise Imogen Guiney, Songs at the Start · 89%
El Dorado Bliss Carman, Later Poems · 87%
Art Maxims William Watson, The Poems of William Watson · 86%
The Land of Exile Various, A Lute of Jade · 85%
First Volume Helen Maria Williams, Poems (1786) · 76%
A Make-Believe George MacDonald, A Microcosm in Terza Rima, and Other Poems
A Warning Adelaide Anne Procter, Legends and Lyrics: Second Series
A Winter Song Radclyffe Hall, Songs of Three Counties, and Other Poems
Among the Red Guns (After waking at dawn one morning when the wind sang low among dry leaves in an elm) Carl Sandburg, Chicago Poems
At Michael Sars's Grave Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Poems and Songs
Beranger's "Ma Vocation" Eugene Field, A Little Book of Western Verse
Bergen Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Poems and Songs
Bergliot Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Poems and Songs
Bird-Songs George MacDonald, A Microcosm in Terza Rima, and Other Poems
Bronwen of the Flowers Eleanor Farjeon, Sonnets and Poems
Buttercups and Daisies Mary E. Burt, Poems Every Child Should Know
Chapter II: A Song Nikolai Nekrasov, Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia?
Clark Street Bridge Carl Sandburg, Chicago Poems
Cypress Leaves I Sándor Petőfi, Translations from Alexander Petofi, the Magyar Poet
Cypress Leaves III Sándor Petőfi, Translations from Alexander Petofi, the Magyar Poet
Directions for Finding the Bard Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun
Dispossessed Lola Ridge, The Ghetto, and Other Poems
False Prophets George MacDonald, A Microcosm in Terza Rima, and Other Poems
Give Place Adelaide Anne Procter, Legends and Lyrics: Second Series
Golden Days Adelaide Anne Procter, Legends and Lyrics: Second Series
Harrison Street Court Carl Sandburg, Chicago Poems
Heart Flowers Sándor Petőfi, Translations from Alexander Petofi, the Magyar Poet
Hearts Adelaide Anne Procter, Legends and Lyrics: Second Series
In the Wayland Willows Bliss Carman, More Songs from Vagabondia
King Hilary and the Beggarman A. A. Milne, Now We Are Six
Little Things Mary E. Burt, Poems Every Child Should Know
Lorenzo de' Medici: Trionfo di Bacco e Arianna Various, An Anthology of Italian Poems (Selections)
Love Song Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Poems and Songs
Myfanwy Among the Leaves Eleanor Farjeon, Sonnets and Poems
Nadowessian Death-Lament Friedrich Schiller, The Poems of Schiller: Third Period
Ode to a Skylark Mary E. Burt, Poems Every Child Should Know
Oily Weather Ernest Hemingway, Ten Poems
Our Language Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Poems and Songs
Ower the Hedge I George MacDonald, A Microcosm in Terza Rima, and Other Poems
Ower the Hedge II George MacDonald, A Microcosm in Terza Rima, and Other Poems
Poem II Lola Ridge, The Ghetto, and Other Poems
Pro Patria Henry Van Dyke, The Poems of Henry Van Dyke
Promenade Lola Ridge, The Ghetto, and Other Poems
Quiet Dead! George MacDonald, A Microcosm in Terza Rima, and Other Poems
Second Stasimon Euripides, Alcestis
Sketch Carl Sandburg, Chicago Poems
Slumber Song for Sunalini Sarojini Naidu, The Bird of Time: Songs of Life, Death & the Spring
Song George MacDonald, A Microcosm in Terza Rima, and Other Poems
Song for Norway Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Poems and Songs
St. Patrick's Breastplate Eleanor Hull, The Poem-Book of the Gael
Sung for Norway's Riflemen Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Poems and Songs
Sweet and Low Mary E. Burt, Poems Every Child Should Know
The Auld Man's Prayer George MacDonald, A Microcosm in Terza Rima, and Other Poems
The Christmas Child George MacDonald, A Microcosm in Terza Rima, and Other Poems
The Dark Girl's Rhyme Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope
The Ghetto III Lola Ridge, The Ghetto, and Other Poems
The Ghetto VII Lola Ridge, The Ghetto, and Other Poems
The Meeting Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Poems and Songs
The Sangreal I George MacDonald, A Microcosm in Terza Rima, and Other Poems
The Sangreal III George MacDonald, A Microcosm in Terza Rima, and Other Poems
The Sangreal VI George MacDonald, A Microcosm in Terza Rima, and Other Poems
The Song of Iron II Lola Ridge, The Ghetto, and Other Poems
The Stork Sándor Petőfi, Translations from Alexander Petofi, the Magyar Poet
The Tinkler’s Baloo Violet Jacob, Bonnie Joann, and Other Poems
Theme in Yellow Carl Sandburg, Chicago Poems
Threnody Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope
To Beachey—1912 Carl Sandburg, Chicago Poems
To Olive Wheeler Henry Van Dyke, The Poems of Henry Van Dyke
Too Late Adelaide Anne Procter, Legends and Lyrics: Second Series
Under Carl Sandburg, Chicago Poems
Under the Harvest Moon Carl Sandburg, Chicago Poems
Verses in the Night (After an Evening Spent in Reading the Big Boys): Mélange for the Unknown George Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun
Victoria Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun
War-Music Henry Van Dyke, The Poems of Henry Van Dyke
When the Boys Come Home John Hay, Pike County Ballads and Other Poems

The first 260 of 323 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.