It normally happens that if you put two words together, or two syllables together, one of them will attract more weight, more emphasis, than the other. In other words, most so-called spondees can be read as either iambs or trochees.

Tennyson follows his feelings in creating each line. He follows the music in his head. If you had asked him, at the end of the day, to describe the prosody of …

Can the ear hear a thirteen-syllable line as consisting of thirteen syllables? I don't think so, but I think that a series of thirteen-syllable lines (supposin…

In the latter part of the nineteenth century there was a craze for metrical experiments which introduced or reintroduced several old French and Italian forms t…

In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column; In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.

Pigeons on the grass alas. Pigeons on the grass alas. Short longer grass short longer longer shorter yellow grass. Pigeons large pigeons on the shorter longer …

I was reading the dictionary; I thought it was a poem about everything.