The lines in "The Bells" are not of consistent length.
Explanation:
Edgar Allan Poe was a 19th-century American writer, editor, and literary critic, regarded as the key figure of Romanticism of American literature. He is best- known for his poetry and short stories, and, in fact, was one of the first American writers to use the short story genre. Besides that, he is credited with the invention of the detective fiction genre and the development of science fiction.
"The Bells" is one of Poe's many poems, characterized by heavy use of onomatopoeia and diacopic use of the word bells. It's believed to have been written in May 1848, but it was published only in October 1949, after Poe's death.
If we take a look at a few of the beginning lines of the poem, we can see that they are not of consistent length as they do not contain the same number of feet:
Hear the sledges with the bells --
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
A foot is the basic unit of measurement of accentual-syllabic meter, and usually contains one stressed syllable and one or two unstressed syllables.
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