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Iambic meters and meters that use a combination of iambs and anapests are also used. An iambic meter that goes back to Classical Windermere verse is the ''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. An iambic meter that goes back to Classical Windermere verse is the ''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.
=== An Elf poem ===
Fantasy author [[Verse:Tricin/Srăga Tsayfuan|Srăga Tsayfuan]] used a variety of meters for the poetry in his novels to express the songs sung by the various races.
Tsăyfuan uses Imthumitil-style rhyming prose for the holy inscrutable angels of the higher realms and Netagin quantitative meters for the dwarves. He uses the alexandrine and other "Classical" meters to render Elvish poetry:
<poem>
'''''Mi seaf imfnüd se doach, mi tsmüng ăbüch mosrel,'''''
'''''Tes tsor hălpduth șăm'it — wăha, chnet fa mi yem!'''''
'''''Rănoat ef loc Dămath, dicleap yaf imhăcwel;'''''
'''''Doar bang, yăsnar, tămnüth, mi sngom se chwep păhem.'''''
'''''— faf chnur Dsüłăff'''''
Gloss:
LOC walk PL-day SP summer LOC come darkness wintry,
and all hope vanish — yea ray from afar
spin_intransitive NOM-DEF wheel fortune, indifferent with-DEF PL-sweat;
yet 1PL.IN, skillful, work_hard, in seek SP light early_morning
Paraphrase:
''As summer days trudge on, we meet the winter soil,''
''And all hope comes to naught — but for a distant ray!''
''Let Fortune turn her wheel, oblivious to our toil;''
''With skill we persevere and seek the light of day.''
''— from Dzüłəf's Song''
</poem>
=== From a Dwarven drinking song ===
<poem>
''Fă bintăngfär șă binșichap,''
''Yăthcom imtlüts, rătoang fi thngew!''
''Rĭ chway ät cber yă chruș imgüth,''
''Mowithlam, tam, tĭ die păn'ew!''
(Hazaj meter, SLLLSLLL)
From stretching when getting up to dozing off,
Overwhelming are the tasks, painful (lit. bitter) is the load!
My only breather is a spirit with ''chruș'' (a a flavoring agent) from the branches,
Splendid and full and always trusty!
</poem>


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