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  2. Metre (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    In poetry, metre (Commonwealth spelling) or meter (American spelling; see spelling differences) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.Many traditional verse forms prescribe a specific verse metre, or a certain set of metres alternating in a particular order.

  3. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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    Cadence: the patterning of rhythm in poetry, or natural speech, without a distinct meter; Catalexis: shortening of a line by one element (adjective: catalectic) Acatalexis: the opposite of catalexis; Acephalous line: a line lacking the first element; Line: a unit into which a poem is divided

  4. Sievers's theory of Anglo-Saxon meter - Wikipedia

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    Eduard Sievers developed a theory of the meter of Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse, which he published in his 1893 Altgermanische Metrik. [1] Widely used by scholars, it was in particular extended by Alan Joseph Bliss. [2] Sievers' system is a primarily method of categorization rather than a full theory of meter.

  5. 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.

  6. Heptameter - Wikipedia

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    Heptameter is a type of meter where each line of verse contains seven metrical feet. [1] It was used frequently in Classical prosody, and in English, the line was used frequently in narrative poetry since the Romantics. [2]

  7. Iambic trimeter - Wikipedia

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    The Iambic trimeter, in classical Greek and Latin poetry, is a meter of poetry consisting of three iambic metra (each of two feet) per line. In English poetry, it refers to a meter with three iambic feet. In ancient Greek poetry and Latin poetry, an iambic trimeter is a quantitative meter, in which a line consists of three iambic metra.

  8. Iambic tetrameter - Wikipedia

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    Iambic tetrameter is a poetic meter in ancient Greek and Latin poetry; as the name of a rhythm, iambic tetrameter consists of four metra, each metron being of the form | x – u – |, consisting of a spondee and an iamb, or two iambs. There usually is a break in the centre of the line, thus the whole line is:

  9. Resolution (meter) - Wikipedia

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    Resolution is the metrical phenomenon in poetry of replacing a normally long syllable in the meter with two short syllables. It is often found in iambic and trochaic meters, and also in anapestic, dochmiac and sometimes in cretic, bacchiac, and ionic meters. In iambic and trochaic meters, either the first or the second half of the metrical foot ...