1. Couplets
               a. four-foot
                   (1) iambic
                   (2) trochaic
               b. five-foot
                   (1) iambic: Heroic Couplets
                           (a) enjambed
                           (b) closed
                               i. balanced (this means rhetorically balanced: parallel or antithetical elements)
                               ii. narrative (as in the closed couplets of the narrative in "The Rape of the Lock")
                   (2) other: trochaic, anapestic, dactylic
               c. longer

       2. Three-line: tercets
               a. Triplet (various lengths) --all rhyme
               b. Terza Rima: aba, bcb, cdc . . .
               c. axa, bxb, cxc . . .
               d. other (nonce) principles of regularity

       3. Quatrains
               a. paired couplets: aabb
               b. abab:
                   (1) Heroic Quatrain: iambic pentameter: abab
                   (2) other line lengths with abab rhyme
               c. 3x3a4x3a or 3a3b4a3b: Short Measure, (can be considered as broken Poulter's Measure: 12-
                       and 14- syllable lines, 6a7a couplets)
               d. Ballad form: xaxa or abab, also known in hymns as Common Measure (can be considered as
                   broken Fourteeeners: 14-syllable lines, 7a7a couplets)
               e. Long Measure: abab or xaxa: four tetrameters
               f. In Memoriam Stanza: tetrameter: abba
               g. asymmetrical:
                   (1) Rubaiyat Stanza: aaxa
                   (2) others
               h. monorhymed quatrains: aaaa, bbbb

       4. Five-line stanzas. No named forms in English except the very rare Mad Song Stanza.
               Numerous nonce forms.

       5. Six-line stanzas:
               a. Venus and Adonis Stanza: iambic pentameter, ababcc
               b. nonce stanzas, including some ending with monometer or dimeter Tail Rhyme.

       6. Seven-line stanzas:
               a. Rime-Royal, occasionally called Chaucerian Stanza or Troilus Stanza: iambic pentameter,
                   ababbcc; perhaps derived from ballade.
               b. nonce forms

       7. Eight-line stanzas:
               a.Ottava Rima: iambic pentameter, abababcc
               b. Monk's Tale Stanza: iambic pentameter, ababbcbc
               c. nonce forms

       8. Nine-line stanzas:
               a. Spenserian Stanza: iambic pentameter except for last line, an Alexandrine: ababbcbcc
               b. nonce forms

       9. Most ten-, eleven-, and twelve-line stanzas are nonce forms. Some seem to be a shortening
               of the sonnet form, as in Keats's odes. Found in poems by Arnold ("Thyrsis," "The Scholar
               Gypsy"), Shelley, Yeats, and others.

       10. Longer forms: sometimes imitated from Italian Canzone, or units of true Pindaric Ode in
               English. Anything longer than 16-18 line becomes very hard to perceive as a unit.

       (Please see section 2 of the prosody instructional program for examples of all the above.)