Your basic poetry handbook
Summary of verse forms
Other constraints
Feet note
Lines
Stanzas
amphibrach • – • (di-da-di)
anapaest • • – di-di-da)
dactyl – • • (da-di-di)
iamb – • (di-da)
spondee – – (da-da)
trochee – • (da-di)
dimeter: two feet
trimeter: three feet
tetrameter: four feet
pentameter: five feet
hexameter: six feet
heptameter: seven feet
octameter: eight feet
alexandrine: 12 syllables
distich: two lines
tercet: three lines
quatrain: four lines
cinquain: five lines
sestet/sextain: six lines
septet: seven lines
octave: eight lines
couplet: two rhyming lines that may form part of a longer stanza