It is frequently found at the end of a line.
U _ | U _ | U _|U U
Life is so full of misery.
_An amphibrach_ is a foot consisting of three syllables, with
the accent on the second.
U _ U U _ U| U _ U| U _ |
Creator, Preserver, Redeemer and friend.
+110. Names of Verse.+--A single line of poetry is called a verse. A
stanza is composed of several verses. When a verse consists of one foot,
it is called a monometer; of two feet, a dimeter; of three feet, a
trimeter; of four feet, a tetrameter; of five feet, a pentameter; and of
six feet, a hexameter.
_ U
Monometer. Slowly.
_ U U| _ U U |
Dimeter. Emblem of happiness.
_ U| _U| _ U |
Trimeter. Like a poet hidden.
_ U| _ U| _ U | _ U |
Tetrameter. Tell me not in mournful numbers.
U _ |U _ |U _| U _ | U _ |
Pentameter. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath.
_ U U | _ U U | _ U U | _ U U | _ U
Hexameter. This is the forest primeval; the murmuring pines and
U | _ U |
the hemlocks.
When we say that a verse is of any particular kind, we do not mean that
every foot in that line is necessarily of the same kind. Verse is named by
stating first the prevailing foot which composes it, and second the number
of feet in a line.
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