All subsequent megalynaria in Greek follow the same metrical pattern.

He describes metrical patterns and poetic devices used by skaldic poets around the year 1200.

Some common metrical patterns, with notable examples of poets and poems who use them, include:

Lines may serve other functions, particularly where the poem is not written in a formal metrical pattern.

It would make a poem too stereotyped if this did in fact happen and so the metrical pattern will be varied.

The metrical pattern of an Alcaic stanza would look like this:

An Asclepiad is a line of poetry following a particular metrical pattern.

He followed the same metrical pattern for his composition.

By occasionally breaking the metrical pattern, the poet can emphasize a word, for example.

There is usually some kind of assonance scheme or metrical pattern underpinning the whole.