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==Poetry==
==Poetry==
Rhyming works similarly to English (two words rhyme if rimes agree).
Rhyming works similarly to English (two words rhyme if rimes agree).
Meter is determined by
*Number of syllables in a line (which might alternate)
*A sequence of accentual feet in each line (usually iambs and anapaests, occasionally trochees)
*Zero or more caesuras


The most common meter in literary poetry by far 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.
The most common meter in literary poetry by far 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.