List of classical meters

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The following meters were used in Greek poetry and borrowed into Latin poetry in the classical period:

[edit] Major Forms

• Dactylic hexameter
• Elegiac couplet, consisting of a line of dactylic hexameter and one of dactylic pentameter
• Iambic trimeter

[edit] Aeolics

• Hendecasyllabic
• Sapphic stanza
• Alcaeic stanza
• Glyconic

[edit] Lyric Meters and Minor Forms

• Choliambic, also known as limping iambs or scazons
• Dochmiac
• Priapean
• Galliambic
• Asclepiadean
• Archilochean
• Pythiambic
• Alcmanic stanza
• Hipponactean