• In poetry, metre (Commonwealth spelling) or meter (American spelling; see spelling differences) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in...
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    Arabic and African music. Western music inherited the concept of metre from poetry, where it denotes the number of lines in a verse, the number of syllables...
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  • (prosody) Hymn tune Hymnology Hymns and hymn tunes Long metre Metre (hymn) Metre (poetry) Short metre Blackstone, Bernard., "Practical English Prosody: A...
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  • Hymn, by William Whiting. Foot (prosody) Hymn tune Metre (hymn) Metre (poetry) "Long metre | poetry". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 8 May 2020. "What...
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  • Lua Metre (poetry), the rhythmic structure of versed text Arabic prosody, study of poetic meters in Arabic; sometimes called the Science of Poetry Semantic...
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  • mother goddess Metre (hymn), the syllable patterns in hymn stanzas Metre (music), the regular underlying temporal grid of music Metre (poetry), the regular...
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  • a Canadian rock band founded in Toronto, Ontario Metre (poetry), the rhythmic structure of poetry Font metrics, properties describing the overall shape...
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    of Linguistics in a Theory of Poetry". Daedalus. 102 (3): 231–44. Russom, Geoffrey (1998). Beowulf and old Germanic metre. Cambridge University Press....
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    ljóðaháttr ("song form"), and málaháttr ("speech form") metres of the Eddic poems. Skaldic poetry is also characteristically more ornate in its diction...
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  • arguably the principal feature which distinguishes poetry from prose. Even in poems where formal metre or rhyme is weakly observed or absent, the convention...
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  • rhythmical patterns used in Greek and Latin poetry are also known as "metres" (US "meters"). Greek poetry developed first, starting as early as the 8th...
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  • can also be found in the poetry of other languages, such as Arabic, Persian, and Sanskrit. However, in descriptions of the metres of these languages, what...
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  • miles that grew? — (VI. 1519-1526) Metre (poetry) Iambic pentameter Foot (prosody) Heroic verse Hobsbaum, Philip. Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form. Routledge...
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  • In poetry, a couplet is a pair of successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet may be formal (closed) or run-on (open). In a formal (closed)...
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  • refer to: the art of making poetry Metre (poetry), the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse Verse (poetry), a single metrical line in...
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  • similar phenomenon has also been observed in classical Persian poetry, for example in the metre of the ruba'i (quatrain), in which the iambic | u – u – | and...
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  • iambus was mainly satirical poetry, lampoons, which did not automatically imply a particular metrical type. Iambic metre took its name from being characteristic...
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  • 148th— 6.6.6.6.4.4.4.4 The latter metres are named for the metres of metrical psalms. Foot (prosody) Hymn tune Metre (poetry) Trochaic septenarius The metrical...
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    traditions of poetry, including English accentual-syllabic verse and the quantitative meter of classical ancient Greek and Latin poetry. The unit is composed...
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  • ISBN 978-0-00-632432-4 Steele, Timothy, Missing Measures: modern poetry and the revolt against metre, University of Arlansas, 1990 ISBN 978-1-55728-126-5...
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  • multiple level). Composite rhythm Metre (hymn) Metre (poetry) Triple metre Duple and quadruple metre Sextuple metre Counting (music) Fitch, W. Tecumseh...
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  • chaupai (चौपाई) is a quatrain verse of Indian poetry, especially medieval Hindi poetry, that uses a metre of four syllables. Famous chaupais include those...
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    Authorial Presence in Skaldic Mythological Poetry". Saga-Book. 20: 276–304. JSTOR 48612121. Poole, Russell (2005). "Metre and Metrics". In McTurk, Rory (ed.)...
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    Dheemahi, Tanno Lakshmih Prachodayat Savitr Om Dhi (Hindu thought) Vedas Metre (poetry) The word Savitr in the original Sanskrit may be interpreted in two...
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    'epic' could refer to all poetry in dactylic hexameter (epea), which included not only Homer but also the wisdom poetry of Hesiod, the utterances of...
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  • Old English metre is the conventional name given to the poetic metre in which English language poetry was composed in the Anglo-Saxon period. The best-known...
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    Sapphic stanza (redirect from Sapphic Metre)
    of her complete works, and of her surviving poetry: fragments 1-42. Sappho's most famous poem in this metre is Sappho 31, which begins as follows: Φαίνεταί...
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  • Mandākrāntā (Sanskrit: मन्दाक्रान्ता) is the name of a metre commonly used in classical Sanskrit poetry. The name in Sanskrit means "slow-stepping" or "slowly...
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  • Persian metres are the patterns of long and short syllables, 10 to 16 syllables long, used in Persian poetry. Over the past 1000 years the Persian language...
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  • Prataprai Arts College before retirement. He writes geet, ghazal, metre and non-metre poetry. His first collection of poems Zalmal Tanu (1994) received Jayant...
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