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Bob and wheel Bob and wheel is the common name for a metrical device most famously used by the Pearl Poet in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight". The feature is found mainly in Middle English and Middle Scots poetry, where the bob and wheel occur typically at the end of a stanza. The "bob" is a very short line, sometimes of only two syllables, followed by the "wheel", longer lines with internal rhyme. There are at least forty known examples of bob and wheel use, but the origin of the form is obscure. It seems to predate the Pearl Poet. Bob and wheel is not used often in modern poetry.
Lekythion A lekythion or lecythion, in classical Greek and Latin poetry, is a metric pattern ("colon") defined by a sequence of seven alternating long and short syllables at the end of a verse (—∨—⊻—∨—). In classical grammatical terminology it can be described as a trochaic dimeter catalectic, i.e. a combination of two groups of two trochees each (—∨—⊻), with the second of these groups lacking its final syllable; or as a trochaic hepthemimer, i.e. a trochaic sequence of seven half-feet. A lekythion can appear in several different metric contexts in different types of poetry, either alone as a verse or as the second of two "cola" following a caesura. A frequent type of occurrence in Greek drama is in lines of iambic trimeter, the most frequent metre used in spoken dialogue, i.e. lines of the type ⊻—∨—|⊻—∨—|⊻—∨—. These lines may have a metric caesura after the first five syllables, with the remaining line thus resulting in a lekythion group.