It is hard to find poems in iambic monometer - MokaEnglish1

TROCHAIC
No examples of trochaic monometer have turned up yet, though there might be some in books of poems
for children. One could write the counting poem that way:
Eeenie
Meenie
Minee
Mo (*)
Catch a
Rabbit
By the
Toe (*)
Trochaic dimeter
William Blake's poem below is an example of what could be considered trochaic dimeter--though it could
equally well be considered a monometer consisting of amphimacers: / * /.
To qualify as trochaic dimeter, it must be seen as an instance of catalexis, which is what occurs in most trochaic
lines, where the last unstressed syllable is cut off. Here it would be diagrammed as: / * | / (*).
Trochaic trimeter
/ * | / (*)
Little boy,
Full of joy;
Little girl,
Sweet and small;
Cock does crow,
So do you;
Merry voice,
Infant noise
This is an example of trochaic trimeter that employs catalexis, so that the last syllable is cut off: / * | / * | / (*).
As with many poems by William Blake, the meter is highly rhythmic but not mechanical.
/ * | / * | / (*)
Why should joys be sweet
Used with deceit, ["used" is pronounced with two syllables]
Nor with sorrows meet?
But an honest joy
Does itself destroy
For a harlot coy.
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