: Re: How is "his eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad" readable as anapestic meter? I'm reading some explanations of the various types of poetic meter. Several of them cite a poem from the

Anapestic meter doesn't necessarily start with a complete foot, often leaving off the first syllable, and this verse isn't completely consistent. There's a non-anapest in the third line.

his EYES are as GREEN as a FRESH pickled TOAD
his HAIR is as DARK as a BLACKboard
I WISH he was MINE, he's TRUly divINE
the HERo who CONquered the DARK lord

As far as an ABAB rhyming scheme goes, I don't get it either. I'm not seeing any rhymes except the slightly slanted BLACKboard and DARK lord.

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