A trochee is a long syllable, or stressed syllable, followed by a short, or unstressed, one.

The "bob" is a very short line, sometimes of only two syllables, followed by the "wheel," longer lines with internal rhyme.

Less used but still favoured by Howard were the Anapaest, two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable, and it's inverse the Dactyl.

Each foot has two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable.

An anapestic foot is two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable.

Each line has ten syllables, and (with slight and pleasant variations) they follow a pattern of weak syllables followed by strong syllables:

In quantitative verse, often used in Greek or Latin, a dactyl is a long syllable followed by two short syllables, as determined by syllable weight.

The poem consists of six stanzas in anapestic or antidactylus meter, a foot with two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.

Now they were walking around the snow figure in a little march, chanting nonsense together, a string of syllables followed by a big "HA," repeated again and again.

In accentual-syllabic verse an antibacchius consists of two accented syllables followed by one unaccented syllable.