four-stress

Kids have hundreds of lines of four-stress verses memorized, they just don’t call it four-stress verse.

THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

Kids have hundreds of lines of four-stress verses memorized, they just don’t call it four-stress verse.

THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

In the classic four-stress line, the first three syllables taking heavy stress (but not the fourth) will start with the same sound.

A Fable of the Round Table Tom Shippey 2007

The poem's challenges are many: its strong four-stress line, heavy alliteration, and profusion of kennings could have been daunting.

Authors textbooks and reviews 2010

There is the old four-stress cadence —” We lived that year in a house on a hill” - sometimes beautiful and sometimes monotonous.

john cheever | fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

There is the old four-stress cadence —” We lived that year in a house on a hill” - sometimes beautiful and sometimes monotonous.

June « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

And chafes beneath their thousand oars "may be marked as" four-stress iambic, "rhyming _aa_; the heroic couplet

A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907

Was walking on the sand "is alternating four-stress and three-stress iambic, rhyming _ab cb_.

A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907

The lark becomes a sightless song "is four-stress iambic, rhyming _ab ba_.

A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907