Although the metrical system in English poetry is predominantly qualitative, quantitative meter, too, has been attempted in English...

When studying English poetry, repeated mention of terminologies such as, stressed syllable and unstressed syllable are hard to miss, and...

Anapest is antidactylus because it is the reverse of dactyl. What is dactyl? Refer to O's earlier commentary on dactyl, or let us simply...

An iamb, trochee and spondee are two-syllabic feet in a verse. A dactyl is a three-syllabic foot in a verse. In a dactylic meter a...

Like an iamb, a trochee, and a spondee, a pyrrhus, too, is a type of foot in a metrical feet. While a spondee is a pair of stressed...

Like an iamb and a trochee, a spondee, too, is a type of foot in a metrical feet. In a spondee one stressed syllable follows another...

What's Montague? || It is nor hand nor foot --William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (II.ii.40) This line is in blank verse. But how is...

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. (IV.i.10-11) Remember these lines and the three witch sisters in...

A blank verse with a feminine ending is, not the standard ten-syllabic metre, instead, one more than the ten, ending with an additional...

We will start with verse-types in the English language first, only because the content generated, for the moment by 'O', is mainly in...