Poetry Meter

What is the metric pattern of these verses, if the rhythm is trochaic?

Tell me / not in / mournful / numbers

By the / shores of / Gitche / Gumee,

By the / shining / Big-Sea- / Water

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Song of Hiawatha"

What is the metric pattern of these verses, if the rhythm utilizes tetrameter, and the first syllable is stressed, followed by an unstressed syllable?

The Grizz / ly Bear / is huge / and wild;

He has / devoured / an in / fant child.

The in / fant child / is not / aware

It has / been eat / en by / the bear.

- A. E. Housman's "Infant Innocence"

What is the metric pattern of these verses, if the rhythm is dactylic?

Cannon to/ right of them

Cannon to / left of them

Cannon in / front of them

Volley'd and/ thunder'd

- Alfred Lord Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade "

What is the metric pattern of these verses, if the rhythm is anapestic?

His eyes are /as green as/a fresh pick/led toad.

- Harry's Valentine from Harry Potter