Monometer
In poetry, a monometer is a line of verse with just one metrical foot.
Example
Monometer can be exemplified by this portion of Robert Herrick's poem "Upon His Departure Hence":[1]
Thus I
Passe by,
And die:
As one,
Unknown,
And gone.
See also
- Trochaic
- Foot (prosody)
References
- ^ Works of Robert Herrick Vol 1 ed. Alfred Pollard, Lawrence & Bullen 1891
External links
- Upon his departure
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Poetic meters
- Monometer
- Dimeter
- Trimeter
- Tetrameter
- Pentameter
- Hexameter
- Heptameter
- Octameter
- Iamb
- Iambic tetrameter
- Iambic pentameter
- Iambic heptameter
- Dactyl
- Dactylic hexameter
- Trochee/Trochaic
- Trochaic tetrameter
- Trochaic octameter
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