What name is given to poetry written in lines of 12 syllables in 6 metrical feet?
Line (poetry) poetic line altogether. In every literature there is a metrical pattern that can be described as "basic" or even "national". The most famous and widely used line of verse in English prosody is the iambic pentameter, while one of the most common of traditional lines in surviving classical Latin and Greek prosody was the hexameter. In modern Greek poetry hexameter was replaced by line of fifteen syllables. In French poetry alexandrine is the most typical pattern. In Italian literature the hendecasyllable, which is a metre of eleven syllables, is the most common line. In Serbian ten syllable lines were used
Molossus (poetry) as four feet, without extra stress on "dwells", then the words in boldface become a molossus. Another example that has been given is "wild-goose-chase", but this requires that there be no stress on "chase", seeing that in Thomas Clarke's "Erotophuseos" (1840), we have where clearly there is no molossus. Molossus (poetry) A molossus () is a metrical foot used in Greek and Latin poetry. It consists of three long syllables. Examples of Latin words constituting molossi are "audiri, cantabant, virtutem". In English poetry, syllables are usually categorized as being either stressed or unstressed, rather than long or short, and the