What meter are "I lik the bred" poems in? I'm trying to determine the meter of "i lik the bred" poems: > "i lik the bred" is a series of short poems about a domesticated cow written by British author Sam Garland, better known by his Reddit handle Poem_for_your_sprog The original poem > my name is Cow, > and wen its nite, > or wen the moon > is shiyning brite, > and all the men > haf gon to bed - > i stay up late. > i lik the bred. I think it's an alternating stress pattern, but I don't know much about poetry. Perhaps it's iambic tetrameter? But I would like to know for certain.

This is a very simple type of poetic metre, iambic) dimeter. Each line consists of just two feet, and each foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable:

> my **name** is **Cow** ,
> and **wen** its **nite** ,
> or **wen** the **moon**
> is **shiy** ning **brite** ,
> and **all** the **men**
> haf **gon** to bed -
> i **stay** up **late**.
> i **lik** the **bred**.

Wikipedia's example#Dimeter) of iambic dimeter is Robert Frost's "Dust of Snow", although not every line is four syllables:

> The way a crow
> Shook down on me
> The dust of snow
> From a hemlock tree
>
> Has given my heart
> A change of mood
> And saved some part
> Of a day I had rued.

You can see that the rhythm of the four-syllable lines in this poem is the same as in the one that you're asking about.