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*The number of syllables in a line (which might alternate); | *The number of syllables in a line (which might alternate); | ||
*A sequence of accentual feet in each line (usually iambs and anapaests, with the occasional trochee); | *A sequence of accentual feet in each line (usually iambs and anapaests, with the occasional trochee); | ||
*Zero or more | *Zero or more caesurae in each line. | ||
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. |
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