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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 and meters that use a combination of iambs and anapests are also used, but are regarded as more difficult. | Iambic meters and meters that use a combination of iambs and anapests are also used, but are regarded as more difficult. An iambic 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 hemistichs separated by a caesura. The first of each group of three feet may occasionally be a trochee. | ||
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