Common Meter

Common Meter

structure: quatrains (four-line stanzas)

meter: lines 1 and 3 are iambic tetrameter

lines 2 and 4 are iambic trimeter

rhyme: lines 1 and 3 may rhyme

lines 2 and 4 must rhyme

example:

Appar/ently / with no / surprise A

To a/ny hap/py flower, B

The frost / beheads / it at / its play C

In ac/ciden/tal power. B

hint: Remember the theme song to Gilligan’s Island? Sing it