When I surf the web at midnight
sometimes bored but often sleepy
PerlMonks becons me with tempting
bandwidth filling pearls of wisdom.

This is unusual because it's not Iambic. I forget what it's called, but the accent is on the first sylable of each two-sylable foot.

—John

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Re: reverse verse
by mdillon (Priest) on Sep 06, 2001 at 22:13 UTC
    it is called "trochaic" (à la "trochee").