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*'''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 many 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 many 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? | ||
**sLLLsLLL (hazaj) | **sLLLsLLL (hazaj/marnin) | ||
**sLLsLLLsLLsLLL | **sLLsLLLsLLsLLL | ||
**LLsLLLsLLL (Yigdal meter) | **LLsLLLsLLL (Yigdal meter) | ||