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Question: Does anyone know the meter of this poem!?!?
Does the road wind up-hill all the way!?
Yes, to the very end!.
Will the day’s journey take the whole long day!?
From morn to night, my friend!.

But is there for the night a resting-place!?
A roof for when the slow dark hours begin!.
May not the darkness hide it from my face!?
You cannot miss that inn!.

Shall I meet other wayfarers at night!?
Those who have gone before!.
Then must I knock, or call when just in sight!?
They will not keep you standing at that door!.

Shall I find comfort, travel-sore and weak!?
Of labor you shall find the sum!.
Will there be beds for me and all who seek!?
Yea, beds for all who come!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
From a simple scan, it reads as if the first three lines of each quatrain are iambic pentameter (five feet, unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one), with the fourth an iambic trimeter (3 feet, same foot)!. This is just a cursory impression, and it reads as if it is a more of an accentual meter than accentual-syllabic one (based on the number of stresses rather than both stresses and numbers of syllables)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com