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1
Q

Dimeter

A

Two-feet line

Workers earn it 
Spendthrifts burn it
Bankers lend it
Women spend it 
Forgers fake it
I could use it
2
Q

Trimeter

A

Three-foot line

The idle life I lead
Is like a pleasant sleep
Wherein I rest and head
The dreams that by me sweep

3
Q

Tetrameter

A

Four - foot line

The hills, the meadows and the lakes

They cannot know they cannot care

4
Q

Pentameter

A

Five-foot line

What oft was thought but ne er so well expressed

With loads of learned lumber in his head

5
Q

Hexameter

A

Six-foot line

If hunger proverbs say allures the wolf from wood

6
Q

Heptmeter

A

Seven-foot line

It looked extremely rocky for the Mudville nine that day

7
Q

Octometer

A

Eight- foot line

Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary

8
Q

Monometer

A

One-foot line

Thus I
Pass by
And die
As one
Unknown
And gone