Meter

According to Encyclopaedia Britannica meter, also metre, is in poetry considered to be the "rhythmic pattern of a poetic line." There have been created principles based on the natural rhythms of language which produced different types of versification, such as quantitative, syllabic, accentual and accentual-syllabic ("metre").

Examples:

William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Act 1, Scene 1)

Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour

Draws on apace. Four happy days bring in

Another moon. But oh, methinks how slow

This old moon wanes! She lingers my desires,

Like to a stepdame or a dowager

Long withering out a young man’s revenue.

Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee

It was many and many a year ago

In a kingdom by the sea,

That a maiden lived there whom you may know

Works cited:

"metre". Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 25 Apr. 2018, https://www.britannica.com/art/metre-prosody. Accessed 22 October 2023. 

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. ( 1987). Annabel Lee : the poem. Montréal: Tundra Books

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. ( 1998). A midsummer night's dream. New York: Signet Classic.

author of the page: Anna Sopková