Trochaic octameter is a rarely used meter. The following first verse from "The Raven" shows the use of trochaic octameter. Trochaic octameter is popular in Polish and Czech literatures. Octameter in poetry is a line of eight metrical feet. Trochaic octameter is a poetic meter that has eight trochaic metrical feet per line. The poem consists of fifteen rhymed tercets; its prevailing meter is trochaic octameter catalectic.