MONOMETER

a rare form of verse in which each line consists of a single metrical unit (a foot or dipody). The best-known example of an entire poem in monometer is Robert Herrick's Upon His Departure Hence: Thus I Passe by, And die: As One, Unknown, And gon: I'm made A shade, And laid I'th grave, There have My Cave. Where tell I dwell, Farewell. Another example in light verse is Desmond Skirrow's Ode on a Grecian Urn Summarized: Gods chase Round vase. What say? What play? Don't know Nice, though.