<P> At another extreme, the prose poem simply eschews poetic line altogether . </P> <P> In every literature there is a metrical pattern that can be described as "basic" or even "national". The most famous and widely used line of verse in English prosody is the iambic pentameter, while one of the most common of traditional lines in surviving classical Latin and Greek prosody was the hexameter . In modern Greek poetry hexameter was replaced by line of fifteen syllables . In French poetry alexandrine is the most typical pattern . In Italian literature endecasillabo that is a metre of eleven syllables is the most common line . In Serbian ten syllable lines were used in long epic poems . In Polish poetry two types of line were very popular, a 11 - syllable one, based on Italian verse and 13 - syllable one, based both on Latin verse and French alexandrine . Classical Sanskrit poetry, such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata, was most famously composed using the shloka . </P> <Ul> <Li> English iambic pentameter: </Li> </Ul> <Li> English iambic pentameter: </Li>

What do you call each line in a poem