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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