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==Poetry== | ==Poetry== | ||
Windermere poetry is based on rhyming and lines with set numbers of syllables. Rhyming prose is a common poetic form. | Windermere poetry is based on rhyming and lines with set numbers of syllables. Rhyming prose is a common poetic form. | ||
===Meter=== | |||
Inspired by Hebrew piyyut meters, but syllable weight isn't as important. Rhyming works similarly to English (two words rhyme if rimes agree). | |||
*Twelve syllables with a caesura after syllable 6. | |||
*Anapaestic tetrameter: uSuuSuuSuuS. It is a somewhat uncommon meter but is used in the King Sămtsay Song. | |||
[[Category:Windermere]] | [[Category:Windermere]] |
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