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[Anonymous No.21692614]

What is your favorite English poetry that is NOT written in iambic pentameter?

I love blank verse but I'm eager to learn what other meters are used in English poetry.

Pic somewhat related, I know Spenser plays around a bit with Alexandrine in the Fairie Queene.

[Anonymous No.21693763]

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning - iambic tetrameter
To His Coy Mistress - iambic tetrameter
The Sphinx - iambic octameter (or iambic tetrameter with half the line breaks removed)
The Destruction of Sennacherib - anapestic tetrameter
The Flea - alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic pentameter
The Ballad of Reading Gaol - alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter
Kubla Khan - iambic lines of varying lengths

[Anonymous No.21693830]

>>21693763
>anapestic tetrameter

[Anonymouṡ No.21694451]

>>21692614

——— IAMBIC TETRAMETER

— An Irish Airman Foresees His Death (W. B. Yeats)
— Daffodils (William Wordsworth)
— A Shropshire Lad #2: 'Loveliest of trees, the cherry now' (A. E. Houseman)
— The Fall of Rome (W. H. Auden)
— Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening (Robert Frost)
— The Trees (Philip Larkin)
— Porphyria's Lover (Robert Browning)
— Flying Crooked (Robert Graves)
— The Passionate Shepherd to his Love (Christopher Marlowe)


——— SYLLABIC (each line has fixed number of syllables but without regular stress pattern)

— 'In My Craft Or Sullen Art' (Dylan Thomas)
— 'Considering The Snail' (Thom Gunn)
— 'The Goddess' (Thom Gunn)
— 'Breakfast' (Thom Gunn)


——— OTHER

— 'The Lost Leader' (William Wordsworth) — DACTYLIC TETRAMETER
— 'The Shooting of Dan McGrew' (Robert Service) — SEVEN-STRESS AMPHIBRACH
— 'The Raven' (Edgar Allan Poe) — TROCHAIC, BASICALLY FOUR-STRESS LINE DOUBLED

[Anonymous No.21694468]

>>21692614
Ezra Pound, TS Eliot, Longfellow

[Anonymous No.21694622]

>>21693763
What a good list.

[Anonymous No.21694645]

>>21694468
Pound is overrated

[Anonymous No.21694894]

>>21692614
pound's cantos

if you want regular meter... Well, a lot of Renaissance and Romantic poets used shorter forms, specially those interested in song, etc.

[Anonymous No.21695992]

>>21692614
The Cat in the Hat

[Anonymous No.21696304]

>>21692614
Milton's Samson Agonistes. It could be considered the first example of free-verse in English poetry, and it's fantastic.