A trochaic foot is illustrated by such words as weary, willow, twi kle, flowing, silent . The anapestic foot . The anapest is illustrated by such words as interrupt, contradict, engineer, masquerade, Galilee . The length, or measure, of a line is called the meter. It is easily recognized in the plays of Shakespeare , the blank verse of John Milton , and the unrhymed narratives of Robert Frost .
Every poem has a pattern, and it is the line which determines the pattern.
The shortest stanza is the couplet. As the name implies, it consists of two lines. The three-line stanza is sometimes called a triplet, sometimes a tercet. With living hues and odors plain and hill. The four-line stanza, or quatrain, is the most common of all verse forms.