Most of the poem is a more hurried trochaic tetrameter.

They were written in trochaic tetrameter.

Trochaic tetrameter is a meter in poetry.

It is sometimes called catalectic trochaic tetrameter.

The poem consists of nine eight-line stanzas and is written in trochaic tetrameter.

Instead it has been adapted so as to represent the meter (trochaic tetrameter), rhyme scheme, and sense of the original text.

Longfellow's use of trochaic tetrameter for his poem has an artificiality that the Kalevala does not have in its own language.

On the other hand, the iambic and the trochaic tetrameter are stirring measures, the latter being akin to dancing, the former expressive of action.

Much of the poem follows the metrical pattern of its first line and can be scanned as trochaic tetrameter catalectic.

The poems of Kanteletar are based on the trochaic tetrameter, generally referred to as "Kalevala metre".

Trochaic tetrameter:

According to the Suda, Phrynichus first introduced female characters on the stage (played by men in masks), and made special use of the trochaic tetrameter.

Gradually, the language became more serious and the meter changed from trochaic tetrameter to the more prosaic iambic trimeter.

The iambic measure then replaced the trochaic tetrameter, which was originally employed when the poetry was of the satyric order, and had greater with dancing.

The Kalevala's metre is a form of trochaic tetrameter that is known as the Kalevala metre.

Longfellow apparently took this metre, a trochaic tetrameter, from Finnish, which he knew a little, in which the metre is traditionally used and less uncomfortable.

Chastushka, a type of traditional Russian poetry, is a single quatrain in trochaic tetrameter with an "abab" or "abcb" rhyme scheme.

Later he and Oberon have a conversation entirely in catalectic trochaic tetrameter, which is unusual, since generally Shakespeare used pentameter for dialogue sequences.

There are two main types of line: a normal trochaic tetrameter and a broken trochaic tetrameter.

The alteration of normal and broken tetrameters is a characteristic difference between the Kalevala meter and other forms of trochaic tetrameter.

There have been several English translations of the original German verses over the years, but all have maintained the original trochaic tetrameter:

The Finnish national epic Kalevala, like much old Finnish poetry, is written in a variation of trochaic tetrameter.

Trochaic tetrameter is also employed by Shakespeare in several instances to contrast with his usual blank verse (which is in iambic pentameter).

("Lame trochaics" exist as well, being a trochaic tetrameter catalectic with the same ending as the iambic.)

In the first edition of this book (1877) Hall had a curious propensity for arguing in a trochaic tetrameter similar to Longfellow's Hiawatha.