ANISOMETRIC VERSE

poetic verse that does not have equal or corresponding poetic metres. An anisometric stanza is composed of lines of unequal metrical length, as in William Wordsworth's Ode: Intimations of Immortality, which begins There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Appareled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore Turn whereso'er I may By night or day The things which I have seen I now can see no more.