Poulter's Measure
Type: | | Structure, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement,
Stanzaic | |
Description: | | Rhymed couplets alternating between iambic hexameter
(Alexandrines) and iambic septameter (Fourteeners). The fouteeners have a cæsura somewhere in the middle of the line after the third or fourth
foot. | |
Origin: | | English | |
Schematic: | | xX xX xX xX xX xX
xX xX xX xX // xX xX xX
or
xX xX xX xX xX xX
xX xX xX // xX xX xX xX
Rhyme scheme is aa bb cc, etc. | |
Rhythm/Stanza Length: | | 2 | |
See Also: | | Alexandrine, Elegiacs, Fourteeners | |
Status: | | Incomplete | |
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