List of classical meters

Poetry meters

The following meters were used in Greek poetry and adapted for Latin poetry:

## Major forms[edit]

* Dactylic hexameter, the meter of the Iliad, Odyssey and Aeneid, used for epic and other narrative and didactic poetry
* Elegiac couplet, consisting of a line of dactylic hexameter and one of dactylic pentameter, employed by Ovid for all his extant works except the Metamorphoses
* Iambic trimeter, the most common meter in the dialogue portions of tragedy and comedy

## Aeolics[edit]

* Glyconic and pherecratean
* Asclepiad
* Sapphic stanza, so called for Sappho
* Alcaic stanza, so called for Alcaeus
* Hendecasyllabic verse
* Adonean

## Other meters[edit]

* Choliambic, also known as limping iambs or scazon
* Ionic
* Anacreonteus
* Anapestic
* Trochaic
* Dactylo-epitrite
* Dochmiac
* Galliambic, a relatively rare form of which Carmen 63 by Catullus is the only complete example from antiquity
* Monometer, having a single foot throughout