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Iambic meters and meters that use a combination of iambs and anapests are also used, but are regarded as more difficult. An iambic 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 hemistichs separated by a caesura. The first of each group of three feet may occasionally be a trochee. | Iambic meters and meters that use a combination of iambs and anapests are also used, but are regarded as more difficult. An iambic 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 hemistichs separated by a caesura. The first of each group of three feet may occasionally be a trochee. | ||
A sample of alexandrine: | |||
<poem> | |||
'''''Mi seaf imfnüd se doach te stoac păłoa mosrel,''''' | |||
'''''Tes tsor hălpduth șăm'it — lăta, chnet fa mi yem!''''' | |||
'''''Rinoat ef loc Dămath, șicleap yaf imhăcwel;''''' | |||
'''''Doar bang, yăsnar, tămnüth, mi sngom se chwep păhem.''''' | |||
'''''— [[Verse:Tricin/Srăga Tsayfuan|Srăga Tsayfuan]]''''' | |||
Gloss: | |||
'' | LOC walk PL-day SP.F summer and meet wind winter, | ||
'' | and all hope vanish — look ray from afar | ||
'' | turn_intransitive NOM-DEF wheel fortune, oblivious with-DEF PL-sweat; | ||
'' | yet 1PL.IN, skillful, work_hard, in seek SP.M light early_morning | ||
Paraphrase: | |||
''As summer days trudge on, and meet the winter soil,'' | |||
''And all hope comes to naught — light shines from far away.'' | |||
''Let Fortune turn her wheel, oblivious to our toil;'' | |||
''we skillful ones work hard, and seek the light of day.'' | |||
''— Srăga Tsayfuan, fantasy author'' | |||
</poem> | </poem> | ||