Meter

pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

iambic (da-DUM)

unstressed then stressed

"Shall I com-PARE thee TO a SUM-mer's DAY?"

"My sense, as THOUGH of HEM-lock I had DRUNK"

"To-MOR-row, AND to-MOR-row, AND to-MOR-row"

"I met a TRAV-el-ER from AN-ti-QUE land"

trochaic (DUM-da)

stressed then unstressed

“Ty- ger! Ty-ger! burn-ing bright”

“Once upon a midnight dreary...”

"Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble"

anapestic

“‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house”

dactylic (DAH-da-da)

one stressed syllable then two unstressed

“Half a league, half a league,

Half a league onward,

All in the valley of Death”

spondaic

two stressed syllables

“Break, break, break / On thy cold, gray stones, O Sea!”

"hog-wild" or "heartbreak"