In poetry, metre (Commonwealth spelling) or meter (American spelling; see spelling differences) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in...

(prosody) Hymn tune Hymnology Hymns and hymn tunes Long metre Metre (hymn) Metre (poetry) Short metre Blackstone, Bernard., "Practical English Prosody: A...

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...

mother goddess Metre (hymn), the syllable patterns in hymn stanzas Metre (music), the regular underlying temporal grid of music Metre (poetry), the regular...

Hymn, by William Whiting. Foot (prosody) Hymn tune Metre (hymn) Metre (poetry) "Long metre | poetry". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 8 May 2020. "What...

Lua Metre (poetry), the rhythmic structure of versed text Arabic prosody, study of poetic meters in Arabic; sometimes called the Science of Poetry Semantic...

Welsh Literature (Oxford, 1955) Ceri W Lewis ‘Iolo Morgannwg and Strict Metre Poetry’ in A Rattleskull Genius ed. Geraint H Jenkins (Cardiff, 2005) Gerald...

a Canadian rock band founded in Toronto, Ontario Metre (poetry), the rhythmic structure of poetry Font metrics, properties describing the overall shape...

of Linguistics in a Theory of Poetry". Daedalus. 102 (3): 231–44. Russom, Geoffrey (1998). Beowulf and old Germanic metre. Cambridge University Press....

ljóðaháttr ("song form"), and málaháttr ("speech form") metres of the Eddic poems. Skaldic poetry is also characteristically more ornate in its diction...

traditions of poetry, including English accentual-syllabic verse and the quantitative meter of classical ancient Greek and Latin poetry. The unit is composed...

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...

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...

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...

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...

exactly two alliterants in the odd-numbered lines.) The metre gained some popularity in courtly poetry, as the rhythm may sound more majestic than dróttkvætt...

miles that grew? — (VI. 1519-1526) Metre (poetry) Iambic pentameter Foot (prosody) Heroic verse Hobsbaum, Philip. Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form. Routledge...

arguably the principal feature which distinguishes poetry from prose. Even in poems where formal metre or rhyme is weakly observed or absent, the convention...

multiple level). Composite rhythm Metre (hymn) Metre (poetry) Triple metre Duple and quadruple metre Sextuple metre Counting (music) Fitch, W. Tecumseh...

In poetry, a couplet or distich is a pair of successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet may be formal (closed) or run-on (open). In...

iambus was mainly satirical poetry, lampoons, which did not automatically imply a particular metrical type. Iambic metre took its name from being characteristic...

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...

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...

native tradition; Horace called the Saturnian horridus. Consequently, the poetry in this meter was not preserved. Cicero regretted the loss in his Brutus:...

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...

couplet in poetry composed in Mātrika metre. This genre of poetry first became common in Apabhraṃśa and was commonly used in Hindustani language poetry. Among...

Prataprai Arts College before retirement. He writes geet, ghazal, metre and non-metre poetry. His first collection of poems Zalmal Tanu (1994) received Jayant...

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...

classical Persian poetry and exists in both trimeter and tetrameter versions. Nearly 10% of lyric poems are written in the following metre: x u – – | u u...

classical Arabic poetry. Unlike Greek metres, in Arabic, an anceps can often be found next to a short element, as in the most common Arabic metre, the Ṭawīl...