1. "The Spirit of Poetry" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is a quiet spirit in these woods,
That dwells where'er the gentle south-wind blows;
Where, underneath the white-thorn, in the glade,
The wild flowers bloom, or, kissing the soft air,
The leaves above their sunny palms outspread.
The above lines are the example of Blank verse. Blank verse is the unrhymed iambic pentameter.
2. "A Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe
Ah! what is not a dream by day
To him whose eyes are cast
On things around him with a ray
Turned back upon the past?
The above lines are the example of Enjambment. Enjambment is a line or phrase which run over from one sentence to another without any final punctuation.
3. "A Shadow" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I said unto myself, if I were dead,
What would befall these children? What would be
Their fate, who now are looking up to me
For help and furtherance? Their lives, I said,
The above lines are the example of iambic pentameter. An iambic pentameter is a form of a metrical line in which each line contains five unstressed syllables followed by five stressed syllables. They are usually arranged in an alternating pattern.
