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  2. Syllabic verse - Wikipedia

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    The most common metric lengths are the ten-syllable line (décasyllabe), the eight-syllable line (octosyllabe) and the twelve-syllable line . Special syllable counting rules apply to French poetry. A silent or mute "e" counts as a syllable before a consonant, but not before a vowel (where h aspiré counts as a consonant). When it falls at the ...

  3. Metre (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    Poems with a well-defined overall metric pattern often have a few lines that violate that pattern. A common variation is the inversion of a foot, which turns an iamb ("da-DUM") into a trochee ("DUM-da"). A second variation is a headless verse, which lacks the first syllable of the first foot.

  4. Metre (hymn) - Wikipedia

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    If one counted all syllables, not just stressed syllables, such hymns follow what is called an 86.86 pattern, with lines of eight syllables alternating with lines of six syllables. This form is also known as common metre. By contrast most hymns in an 87.87 pattern are trochaic, with strong-weak syllable pairs: Love divine, all loves excelling,

  5. Old English metre - Wikipedia

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    The stressed syllables are ordered along the same basic hierarchy of the alliteration; it is very rare that a stressed syllable would be a preposition or pronoun. Words such as God, King, and proper nouns are very frequently stressed. After we apply stresses to the appropriate syllables, we must find the unstressed and secondary-stressed syllables.

  6. Poetic devices - Wikipedia

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    Anapaest–A three-syllable metrical pattern in poetry in which two unstressed syllables are followed by a stressed syllable. Dactyl–A three-syllable metrical pattern in poetry in which a stressed syllable is followed by two unstressed syllables. Spondee–A beat in a poetic line that consists of two accented syllables. It is a poetic form ...

  7. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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    Common metre: a quatrain with rhyme scheme ABAB and alternates 4-stress and 3-stress iambic lines. This is the meter used in hymns and ballads. [1] Indian poetic meters: Chhand; Kannada meter; Mandakranta; Mātrika; Ovi; Triveni; Sanskrit meter; Tamil meter; Vedic meter. Triṣṭubh: a Vedic meter of 44 syllables, or any hymn composed in this ...

  8. Common metre - Wikipedia

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    Common metre or common measure [1] —abbreviated as C. M. or CM—is a poetic metre consisting of four lines that alternate between iambic tetrameter (four metrical feet per line) and iambic trimeter (three metrical feet per line), with each foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

  9. Line (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    In modern Greek poetry hexameter was replaced by line of fifteen syllables. In French poetry alexandrine [9] is the most typical pattern. In Italian literature the hendecasyllable, [10] which is a metre of eleven syllables, is the most common line. In Serbian ten syllable lines were used in long epic poems.

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