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*Zero or more caesurae in each line. | *Zero or more caesurae in each line. | ||
The most common meter in literary verse by far is the anapaestic tetrameter. | The most common meter in literary verse by far is the anapaestic tetrameter: (u)uSuuSuuSuuS. | ||
One meter that | 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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