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| x Dactylic hexameter | Aeneid |
Dactylic hexameter (also known as "heroic hexameter") is a form of meter in poetry or a rhythmic scheme. It is traditionally associated with the quantitative meter of classical epic poetry in both Greek and Latin, and was consequently considered to...
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| x Iambic trimeter |
Iambic trimeter is a meter of poetry consisting of three iambic units per line.
In ancient Greek poetry and Latin poetry, iambic trimeter is a quantitative meter, in which a line consisted of three iambic metra and each metron consisted of two iambi...
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| x Iambic pentameter | When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be |
Iambic pentameter (from Greek: ἰαμβικός πεντάμετρος meaning to have five iambs) is a commonly used metrical line in traditional verse and verse drama. The term describes the particular rhythm that the words establish in that line. That rhythm is...
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| The Rape of Lucrece | |||
| There Will Come Soft Rains | |||
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| x Iambic heptameter |
Iambic heptameter is a poetic meter that has seven iambic metrical feet per line.
e.g. "The rusty chains of prison moons are shattered by the sun" (from King Crimson's "In the Court of the Crimson King", words of P. Sinfield)
Typical in iambic...
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| x Iambic tetrameter | The Passionate Shepherd to His Love |
Iambic tetrameter is a meter in poetry. It refers to a line consisting of four iambic feet. The word "tetrameter" simply means that there are four feet in the line; iambic tetrameter is a line comprising four iambs.
Some poetic forms rely upon...
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| A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning | |||
| To His Coy Mistress | |||
| x Alexandrine | Les Fleurs du mal |
An alexandrine is a line of poetic meter comprising 12 syllables. Alexandrines are common in the German literature of the Baroque period and in French poetry of the early modern and modern periods. Drama in English often used alexandrines before...
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| x Dactylic tetrameter |
Dactylic tetrameter is a metre in poetry. It refers to a line consisting of four dactylic feet. "Tetrameter" simply means four poetic feet. Each foot has a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables, the opposite of an anapest, sometimes...
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| x Anapestic tetrameter |
Anapestic tetrameter is a poetic meter that has four anapestic metrical feet per line. Each foot has two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. It is sometimes referred to as a "reverse dactyl", and shares the rapid, driving pace of...
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| x Trochaic tetrameter |
Trochaic tetrameter is a meter in poetry. It refers to a line of four trochaic feet. The word "tetrameter" simply means that the poem has four trochees. A trochee is a long syllable, or stressed syllable, followed by a short, or unstressed, one.
For...
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| x Trochaic octameter | The Raven |
Trochaic octameter is a poetic meter that has eight trochaic metrical feet per line. Each foot has one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. Trochaic octameter is a rarely used meter.
The best known work in trochaic octameter is...
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| x Elegiac couplet | Heroides |
The elegiac couplet is a poetic form used by Greek lyric poets for a variety of themes usually of smaller scale than the epic. Roman poets, particularly Ovid, adopted the same form in Latin many years later. As with the English heroic, each couplet...
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| x Ecclesiastical Latin Meter | Carmina Burana | ||
| x Kannada meter |
Kannada prosody (ಕನ್ನಡ ಛ೦ದಸ್ಸು) is the study of metres used in Kannada poetry, describing the rhythmic structure of a verse. The metres used include some metres borrowed from other traditions, and indigenous metres. Kannada literature, especially...
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| x Vedic meter |
The verses of the Vedas have a variety of different meters. They are divided by number of padas in a verse, and by the number of syllables in a pada. Chandas (छन्दः), the study of Vedic meter, is one of the six Vedanga disciplines, or "organs of the...
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| x Hazaj meter |
Hazaj meter is a quantitative verse metric frequently found in the epic poetry of the Middle East and western Asia. A musical rhythm of the same name is based on the literary meter.
Like the other meters of the al-'arud system of Arabic poetry, the...
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| x Kalevala meter |
The Kalevala meter is the meter of the epic Finnish poem, Kalevala. In English verse classification, it would be known as trochaic tetrameter.
It has also been used by Longfellow in The Song of Hiawatha.
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| x Ballad meter |
The ballad meter, commonly found in ballads, has stanzas of four iambic lines. The first and third typically have four-stresses; the second and fourth have three-stresses and usually rhyme (Horton, 1995). Ballad meter is commonly used in the hymn,...
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| x Sloka meter |
Sloka meter is a Sanskrit meter consisting of two lines of sixteen syllables each.
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Satya Jell |
Poetry (from the Greek "poiesis" — "ποίησις" — with a broad meaning of a "making", seen also in such terms as "hemopoiesis"; more narrowly, the making of poetry) is a form of literary art which uses the aesthetic qualities of language to evoke...
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