To remember your poetic meters and feet Samual wrote a song to help memorize - Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks; strong foot yet ill able Ever to come up with Dactylic trisyllable. Iambics march from short to long — With a leap and a bound the swift Anapests throng. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Not sure if the song or the actual poetic devices are easier to remember