In
poetry
Poetry (from the Greek language, Greek word ''poiesis'', "making") is a form of literature, literary art that uses aesthetics, aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meaning (linguistics), meanings in addition to, or in ...
, a monometer is a line of verse with just one
metrical foot.
Example
Monometer can be exemplified by this portion of
Robert Herrick's poem "Upon His Departure Hence":
[Works of Robert Herrick Vol 1 ed. Alfred Pollard, Lawrence & Bullen 1891]
Thus I
Passe by,
And die:
As one,
Unknown,
And gone.
See also
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Trochaic
In poetic metre, a trochee ( ) is a metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one, in qualitative meter, as found in English, and in modern linguistics; or in quantitative meter, as found in Latin and Ancien ...
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Foot (prosody)
The foot is the basic repeating rhythmic unit that forms part of a line of verse in most Indo-European traditions of poetry, including English accentual-syllabic verse and the quantitative meter of classical ancient Greek and Latin poetry. ...
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Upon his departure
Types of verses
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