Frost is known as a metricist. Frost said, "I would sooner write free verse as play tennis with the net down."
He also said, "There are only two meters: strict and loose iambic."
The following chart shows the types of iambic meter her wrote:
- Dimeter: "Dust of Snow," "The Rose Family," "The Rabbit Hunter," "I Will Sing You One-O," "Gathering Leaves"
- Trimeter: "Reluctance," "Flower Gathering," "Nothing Gold Can Stay," "Neither Out Far Nor In Deep," "Departmental"
- Tetrameter: "Stopping by Woods," "My November Guest," "The Road Not Taken," "Going for Water," "Devotion"
- Pentameter: "Acquainted with the Night," "The Runaway," "The Silken Tent," "Mending Wall," "Birches,"
- Hendeca-syllabics: "For Once Then," "Something"
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