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==Poetry== | ==Poetry== | ||
===Rhyme=== | |||
Rhyming works similarly to English (two words rhyme if rimes agree). | Rhyming works similarly to English (two words rhyme if rimes agree). | ||
===Meter=== | |||
A classical literary Windermere meter is determined by | A classical literary Windermere meter is determined by | ||
*The number of syllables in a line (which might alternate); | *The number of syllables in a line (which might alternate); | ||
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One meter that goes back to Classical Windermere verse 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. | One meter that goes back to Classical Windermere verse 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. | ||
Alexandrine gibberish: | |||
<poem> | <poem> | ||