Iambic heptameter (seven iambs per line containing seven feet) Iambic hexameter (six iambs per line containing six feet)Ħ. Iambic pentameter (five iambs per line containing five feet)ĥ.
Iambic tetrameter (four iambs per line containing four feet)Ĥ. Iambic trimeter (three iambs per line containing three feet)ģ. Iambic diameter (two iambs per line containing two feet)Ģ. Related: Definition & Examples of Assonance in Poetry Types of Iambic Meter in Poetryġ. See the complete meter scansion to understand better.
The above two lines from Joyce Kilmer‘s poem, Trees, which is composed of strict iambic tetrameter, a meter in poetry containing four pairs of first unstressed & second stressed syllable in four poetic feet and making the repeated (da- DUM) sound in each line. When a line of poetry is composed of two-syllable units, where the first is a stressed syllable, following the second unstressed syllable, creating an Iambic meter in the poetry and making the da- DUM sound.
