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*Number of syllables in a line (which might alternate) | *Number of syllables in a line (which might alternate) | ||
*A sequence of accentual feet in each line (usually iambs and anapaests, occasionally trochees) | *A sequence of accentual feet in each line (usually iambs and anapaests, occasionally trochees) | ||
*Zero or more caesuras | *Zero or more caesuras 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. | ||