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Iambic meters and meters that use a combination of iambs and anapests are also used. An iambic meter that goes back to Classical Windermere verse is the ''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. | Iambic meters and meters that use a combination of iambs and anapests are also used. An iambic meter that goes back to Classical Windermere verse is the ''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. | ||
=== Example === | === Example === | ||
Fantasy author [[Verse:Tricin/Srăga Tsayfuan|Srăga Tsayfuan]] used a variety of meters for the poetry in his novels to express the songs sung by the various races. | Fantasy author [[Verse:Tricin/Srăga Tsayfuan|Srăga Tsayfuan]] used a variety of meters for the poetry in his novels to express the songs sung by the various races. | ||
Tsăyfuan uses Imthumitil-style rhyming prose for the holy inscrutable angels of the higher realms and piyyut meters for the dwarves. He uses the alexandrine and other "Classical" meters to render Elvish poetry: | |||
<poem> | <poem> | ||
'''''Mi seaf imfnüd se doach, mi tsmüng ăbüch mosrel,''''' | '''''Mi seaf imfnüd se doach, mi tsmüng ăbüch mosrel,''''' | ||
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</poem> | </poem> | ||
=== Gibberish piyyut === | === Gibberish piyyut === | ||
<poem> | <poem> |
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