[NicknamedBob]

"...that sounds so much like a Tolkein poem..."

It's iambic pentameter. Way, way back when I went to school, we were taught that poetry sounded like that. I don't know whether Tolkien went to the same school or not. He could have been sitting behind me.

Another dictionary calls it English heroic verse.

iamb (ì´àmb´, ì´àm´) also iambus (ì-àm´bes) noun
plural iambs also iambuses or iambi (-bì´)
A metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable or a short syllable followed by a long syllable, as in delay.
[French iambe, from Latin iambus, from Greek iambos.]

iambic (ì-àm´bîk) adjective
Consisting of iambs or characterized by their predominance: iambic pentameter.

noun
1. An iamb.
2. Often iambics. A verse, stanza, or poem written in iambs.

[international american]

Thank you for educating Rita