Poetic Meter
Find the meter of a verse and the number of feet from marked stresses or a stress scheme: iamb, trochee, dactyl, amphibrach, anapest.
Mark stressed vowels with an accent (дя́дя), an apostrophe after the vowel (дя'дя) or a capital letter (дЯдя); ё is always stressed. For any language you can enter a scheme: ∪ — ∪ — or -/-/ or 0101. Put each line of the poem on its own line.
The poetic meter calculator finds the meter of a verse — iamb, trochee, dactyl, amphibrach or anapest — and the number of feet from lines with marked stresses (Russian) or from a stress scheme (any language). It shows the scheme of every line and its ending.
How to find the meter
- Split the line into syllables.
- Mark stressed (—) and unstressed (∪) syllables.
- Find the repeating group — the foot — and count how many times it occurs.
| Meter | Foot | Scheme of a tetrameter |
|---|---|---|
| trochee | — ∪ | — ∪ — ∪ — ∪ — ∪ |
| iamb | ∪ — | ∪ — ∪ — ∪ — ∪ — |
| dactyl | — ∪ ∪ | — ∪ ∪ — ∪ ∪ — ∪ ∪ — |
| amphibrach | ∪ — ∪ | ∪ — ∪ ∪ — ∪ ∪ — ∪ ∪ — ∪ |
| anapest | ∪ ∪ — | ∪ ∪ — ∪ ∪ — ∪ ∪ — ∪ ∪ — |
Example. Shakespeare's sonnets are in iambic pentameter: ∪ — ∪ — ∪ — ∪ — ∪ —.
In iambs and trochees some strong positions may lack a stress (pyrrhic); this does not change the meter.
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