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	Hymn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		C.M. - Common Meter; a quatrain (four-line stanza) with alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter, which rhymes in the second and fourth lines and sometimes in the first and third (8/6/8/6); also called Ballad Meter.
		H.M. - Hallelujah Meter; a six-line stanza of which the first four lines are trimeter and the last two are tetrameter, which rhymes most often in the second and fourth lines and the fifth and sixth lines (6/6/6/6/8/8).
		S.M. - Short Meter; iambic lines in the first, second, and fourth are in trimeter, and the third in tetrameter, which rhymes in the second and fourth lines and sometimes in the first and third (6/6/8/6).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hymn (1662 words)

	Timothy Steele - Introduction to Meter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The line, however, remains conventionally iambic, since the poet maintains the fundamental lighter-to-heavier fluctuation and since the syllables in each individual foot reflect the lighter-to-heavier relationship characteristic of iambs.
		Though such words can be integrated into the middle of the iambic line, it is useful also to have the option of setting them at the head of the line or at the end of it.
		Still, loose iambic pentameters are interestingly employed by Frost in “Mowing,” “On Looking Up by Chance at the Constellations,” and “Wilful Homing.” And Hardy’s extraordinary “Afterwards” features a cross-rhyming quatrain whose first and third lines are loose iambic hexameters and whose second and fourth lines are loose iambic pentameters.
	instructional1.calstatela.edu /tsteele/TSpage5/meter.html (3191 words)

	EMC - The Early Modern Center
		And a wealthy wife was she; (iambic trimeter)
		She had three stout and stalwart sons, (iambic tetrameter)
		As emphasized in The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, a thorough and careful study of ballad measure has yet to be accomplished.
	emc.english.ucsb.edu /ballad_project/background_essays/ballad_measure.asp (490 words)

	The Subgenre of Murder Ballads in the Street Literature of Britain
		The Norton Anthology of Poetry and The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics give a general definition of the ballad stanza: it is a quatrain made up of alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter.
		Most of the ballads alternate lines of iambic tetrameter with lines of iambic trimeter.
		If it were divided into the traditional alternating tetrameter and trimeter quatrains, the ballad would be fourteen stanzas long, and its rhyming pattern would be the traditional abxb.
	mh.cla.umn.edu /culler.html (3066 words)

	Xenophanes
		Seventy-four selections, of which the most extensive is the pseudo-Aristotelian treatise On Melissus, Xenophanes, Gorgias (MXG), make up the collection of testimonia in DK.
		Laertius' statement (A1) that Xenophanes “wrote in epic meter, also elegiacs, and iambics” is confirmed by extant poems in hexameters and elegiac meter, with one couplet (B14) a combination of hexameter and iambic trimeter.
		Ancient writers referred to a number of his compositions as silloi -- ‘squints’ or satires, and a critical tone pervades many of the surviving fragments.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/xenophanes (4490 words)

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