Crossing rhyme: A-B-A-B Ring Rhyme: A-B-B-A Accented verse. There is such a type of verse in which only the number of stresses in a line is taken into consideration. The number of syllables and the type of feet is irrelevant. Classical English verse like classical Russian verse in “syllabo-tonic” (one in which both syllables and stresses (or tones) are accounted for).
Accented verse is only tonic. Here is an example in which every line has 3 stresses and the feet varies from anapest to iambus:
Work! Work! Work! While the cock is crowing aloof And work-work-work Till the stars shine though the roof (“The Song of the Shirt” by T. Hood) Finally there are some poets who reject both metrical patterns and rhyme. When written or printed such poems resemble regular verse only because of the shortness of the lines. Galperin writes: “This type of poetry can hardly be called verse from a structural point of view.” It has become what is sometimes called poetic prose”.
