A Complete (?) List of Metric Feet

In poetry, lines of verse are composed of metric feet. Feet consist of patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables which give lines certain rhythms. In this table of feet, we will use the symbol to indicate an unstressed or short syllable and the symbol to undicate a stressed or long syllable.

Name of Foot	Rhythm	Rarity
Alexandrine		Uncommon
Amphibrach		Uncommon
Amphimacer		Uncommon
Anapaest or Anapest		Common
Antibacchus		Rare
Antidactylus		Common
Antispast		Rare
Asclepiad		Very Rare
Bacchius		Rare
Bob	or	Uncommon
Brach		Rare
Choree or Choreus		Uncommon
Choriamb or Choriambus		Uncommon
Cretic		Rare
Dactyl		Uncommon
Diamb or Diiamb		Rare
Dibrach		Uncommon
Dichoree or Dichoreus		Rare
Dimacer		Uncommon
Dispondee		Rare
Ditrochee		Rare
Dochmius		Rare
Double Iamb		Uncommon
Double Trochee		Rare
First Epitrite		Uncommon
Fourth Epitrite		Uncommon
Hemiepes	or	Very Rare
Iamb or Iambus		Very Common
Macer		Rare
Major Ionic		Uncommon
Minor Ionic		Uncommon
Molossus		Rare
Paeon Diagyios		Rare
Primus Paeon		Rare
Proceleus maticus or Proceleusmatic		Rare
Pyrrhus		Uncommon
Quartus Paeon		Rare
Sapphic	or	Very Rare
Second Epitrite		Uncommon
Secundus Paeon		Uncommon
Spondee		Uncommon
Tertius Paeon		Uncommon
Tetrabrach		Rare
Third Epitrite		Uncommon
Tribrach		Rare
Trochee		Common