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The most common meter in literary verse by far is the anapestic tetrameter: (u)uSuuSuuSuuS. It is also used in the [[Verse:Tricin/King Sămtsay Song|King Sămtsay Song]], the Windermere national anthem. | The most common meter in literary verse by far is the anapestic tetrameter: (u)uSuuSuuSuuS. It is also used in the [[Verse:Tricin/King Sămtsay Song|King Sămtsay Song]], the Windermere national anthem. | ||
Iambic meters are also used, but are regarded as more difficult. | |||
One meter that goes back to Classical Windermere verse is ''chinung tălach'' ('hexad meter', more literally 'hexad count'), a form of alexandrine where each line consists of two iambic trimeter halves separated by a caesura. The first of each group of three feet may occasionally be a trochee. | One meter that goes back to Classical Windermere verse is ''chinung tălach'' ('hexad meter', more literally 'hexad count'), a form of alexandrine where each line consists of two iambic trimeter halves separated by a caesura. The first of each group of three feet may occasionally be a trochee. |
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