The poem is written in iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter. Elegiac poems were written in elegiac couplets and iambic poems were written in iambic trimeter. In English accentual-syllabic verse, iambic trimeter is a line comprising three iambs. Dickinson avoids pentameter, opting more generally for trimeter, tetrameter and, less often, dimeter. Iambic trimeter is a meter referring to a line consisting of three iambic feet. The poem has a fairly loose structure, with most lines either being tetrameter or trimeter. The Second Pythiambic features an iambic trimeter instead of iambic dimeter in the second line. Also, the third anceps of the iambic trimeter line must be short in limping iambs. Two lines of iambic trimeter attributed to Sulpicia are quoted by a scholiast on Juvenal. He wrote the libretto based on a poetic text by Robert Walser in iambic trimeter. The poem is 118 lines long, and written in iambic trimeter. The meter is principally iambic trimeter, which is common with both tragedy and comedy. The Greek iambic trimeter allows resolution, allowing more variety. The quoted phrase "corpusque suaui telino unguimus" is part of a scazon or iambic trimeter. The rhyme is organized by its meter, a sprung rhythm in trimeter.