There are other things, however, which go to make up perfect structure in a poem. First and foremost, the words are so arranged that the accented syllables in any given line come at regular intervals. Take, for instance, the first two lines of this poem. Each line contains eight syllables. If you number these syllables 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, you will see that it is the second one each time that bears the accent, thus: I wan'dered lone'ly as' a cloud' That floats' on high' o'er vales' and hills'. Now, if you read the four remaining lines of the stanza you will see that in each one of these the second syllable bears the accent, until you come to the last line, where in the word _fluttering_, which, by the way, you pronounce _flutt'ring_, the accent is on the first syllable. If the poet did not now and then change the accent a little it would become tedious and monotonous. It is a very simple matter, you see, to separate every line of poetry into groups of syllables, and in every group to place one accented syllable and one or more syllables that are not accented. Such a group is called a _foot_. Thus in each of the first two lines in this poem there are four _feet_. Each _foot_ contains an accented and an unaccented syllable. If you examine _To the Fringed Gentian_, _To a Mouse_, and _To a Mountain Daisy_, the three poems which follow this, you will see the same structure, except that in _To a Mouse_ and in _To A Mountain Daisy_ there are some short lines and some double rhymes, making the last foot a little different in character from the others. When a line of poetry is composed of two-syllable feet in which the second syllable bears the accent we call that meter _iambic_. It is the prevalent foot in English poetry, and if you examine the different poems in these volumes you will be surprised to find out how many of them are written substantially on the plan of _The Daffodils_. In naming the meter of a poem two things are considered: First the _character_ of the feet, and second, the _number_ of feet. In this poem the feet are iambic and there are four of them, consequently we name the meter of this poem _iambic tetrameter_. Whenever you hear those words you think of a poem whose meter is exactly like that of _The Daffodils_. These words seem long and hard to remember. It may help you to remember them if you think that the word _iam'bic_ contains an iambic foot.