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==Poetry== | ==Poetry== | ||
===Rhyme=== | |||
Like in Hebrew piyyutim, the rhyming class is usually determined by the last syllable but the initial consonants of the last syllables has to also match. | |||
===Meter=== | |||
Classical Tseer poetry is based on lines with | Classical Tseer poetry is based on lines with | ||
*prescribed | *a prescribed number of syllables, | ||
*a caesura somewhere in the middle | *a caesura somewhere in the middle | ||
*the lines rhyme in some rhyme scheme, usually in rhyming couplets (aa) or rhyming quatrains (aaaa). | *the lines rhyme in some rhyme scheme, usually in rhyming couplets (aa) or rhyming quatrains (aaaa). | ||