ENGLISH
564




main page

schedule

form & genre
lists


FORM OF POETRY
Section 001 / Fall 2004 / Susan Tichy / Tuesday 7:20-10:00 / Thompson Hall 106


FORM & GENRE LISTS, page 3

Trimeter & Dimeter  /  Triple meters  /  Hexameter  /



Dimeter:

Wyatt (16th c): What should I say 119

Byron (19th c): When we two parted

Trimeter:

Askew (16th c): The ballad which Anne Askew made and sang when she was in Newgate 128

Gascoigne: And If I Did What Then? 132

Ralegh: The Lie 142

Campion: I Care Not for These Ladies (song) 249

Herbert: Discipline 345

Frost: Neither Out Far Nor In Deep 1135, To Earthward 1132, Come In 1137

Tennyson (19th c): Break, Break, Break 895

Hardy: I Looked Up from My Writing MODERN 60

Housman: Is My Team Ploughing?
MODERN 86, With Rue My Heart Is Laden 87

Yeats: see three beat accentual poems

Bogan: Night
MODERN 590

Auden: As I Walked Out One Evening 1360

Roethke: My Papa's Waltz 1386

Bishop: see three beat accentual poems

Brooks: We Real Cool 1481

Fenton: God A Poem 1841

Triple Meters:

Blake: Ah Sunflower 681

Byron: The Destruction of Sennacherib 766

Longfellow: from Evangeline 860

Poe: Annabel Lee 884

Tennyson: The Charge of the Light Brigade 907

De la Mare: The Listeners 1120

Betjeman: Death in Leamington 1356

Hexameter:

Wyatt (16th c): They flee from me 115

Queen Elizabeth I (16th c): The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy 131

Gurney: First Time In 1262

Lewis: The Stand-To 1342