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==Poetry==
==Poetry==
Skellan poetry can use either rhyme or rhythmic alliteration or both.
Rhyming poetry is often said to be from [[Windermere/Classical|Windermere]] and [[Tseer/Classical|Tseer]] influence, as poetry in these languages tend to use rhyme. This supplanted ___ used in Tigol poetry.
 
Rhyming poetry is often said to be from [[Windermere/Classical|Windermere]] and [[Tseer/Classical|Tseer]] influence, as poetry in these languages tend to use rhyme.
*'''Stress-based meters''' like trochaic/iambic/dactylic meters: the iambic pentameter is common as in English. These meters were directly borrowed from late Classical Windermere and Tseer poetry.
*'''Stress-based meters''' like trochaic/iambic/dactylic meters: the iambic pentameter is common as in English. These meters were directly borrowed from late Classical Windermere and Tseer poetry.
*'''Quantitative meters''' arose in the vernacular poetic tradition. Like medieval Hebrew piyyutim, these meters are based on a pattern of long and short syllables, where short = a syllable ending in [ə] and long = everything else. Issue: too many longs?
*'''Quantitative meters''' arose in the vernacular poetic tradition. Like medieval Hebrew piyyutim, these meters are based on a pattern of long and short syllables, where short = a syllable ending in [ə] and long = everything else. Issue: too many longs?
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