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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. |