| alexandrine | amphibrach |
| amphimacer | anapaest/anapest |
| choree | choriamb/choriambus |
| cretic | dactyl |
| decasyllable | dimeter |
| dipody | distich |
| disyllable | duple metre |
| elegiac couplet | elegiac distich |
| heptameter | heroic couplet |
| hexameter | iamb/iambus |
| iambic pentameter | ionic |
| monometer | octameter |
| paeon | pentameter |
| pyrrhic | spondee |
| tetrameter | tribrach |
| trimeter | trisyllable |
| trochee |