- Monometer
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In poetry, a monometer is a line of verse with just one metrical foot, exemplified by this portion of Robert Herrick's "Upon His Departure Hence":
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- Thus I
Passe by,
And die:
As one,
Unknown,
And gone.
- Thus I
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A more famous example is the slogan of the Milk Marketing Board in the 1970s:
Drinka
Pinta
Milka
Daywhose trochaic monometer echoes Hiawatha to assert the primitive importance of milk. A poem with lines of absolutely minimal metrical length is:
Beanz
Meanz
HeinzCategories:- Poetic rhythm
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