Short meter

Short meter is a verse form consisting of four line stanzas, or quatrains, of iambic trimeter, with an alternate rhyme scheme a-b-a-b. Short meter is similar to long meter, which consists of similar quatrains of iambic tetrameter; and to Common meter, which consists of quatrains of two lines each of alternating iambic tetrameter]] and [[iambic trimeter.