Glossary: Types of Poetic Meter

Two-syllable feet

Iamb
Trochee
Spondee
Pyrrhus

Three-syllable feet (triplets)

Amphibrach
Dactyl
Bacchius
Antibacchius
Cretic
Molossus
Anapest

Number of feet per line

Dimeter
Trimeter
Quadrameter
Pentameter
Hexameter
Heptameter
Line endings

Masculine ending
Feminine ending