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	Meter (poetry) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scansion is the analysis of poetry's metrical and rhythmic patterns; prosody is sometimes used to describe poetic meter, and sometimes indicates the analysis of similar aspects of language in linguistics.
		Meters in English verse, and in the classical Western poetic tradition on which it is founded, are named by the characteristic foot and the number of feet per line.
		Another important meter in English is the ballad meter, also called the "common meter", which is a four line stanza, with two pairs of a line of iambic tetrameter followed by a line of iambic trimeter ; the rhymes usually fall on the lines of trimeter, although in many instances the tetrameter also rhymes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Meter_(poetry) (1910 words)

	06_meters
		Note that all Urdu meters end with a long syllable--after which a short "cheat syllable" is permitted to occur, at the poet's pleasure, in almost all meters--and that three short syllables may never occur in succession.
		For convenience in reference, the meters are arranged in order according to their number of initial long syllables, from the ones with most initial long syllables to the ones with fewest.
		You might have noticed certain pairs of meters-- #1 and #9, #14 and #15, #16 and #17, #18 and #19, #33 and #34-- which differ only in that the next-to-last syllable consists of one long (=) in the first member of the pair, which is replaced by two shorts (- -) in the second member.
	www.columbia.edu /itc/mealac/pritchett/00ghalib/meterbk/06_meters.html (3084 words)

	Versification: Conference Papers
		Meter is measure, and what it has measured in the western poetic tradition for the last 2,800 years is not in serious doubt.
		In a system of poetic rhythm based on music theory, the identification of meter with beating is an obvious gambit to circumvent the difficult fact that meter is an artistic convention for the intentional selection and patterning of linguistic phenomena.
		Its failure as a general explanatory hypothesis means that the motive engine to drive a system of poetic meter based on music fails, and with that failure all other high-level rhythmic components dependent on beating, which of courses measures tonal progression, fail equally.
	depts.washington.edu /versif/resources/papers/mla97/willett.html (3960 words)

	Literature \| Glossary of Poetic Terms
		Poetic meters such as trochaic and dactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.
		The verse is "free" in not being bound by earlier poetic conventions requiring poems to adhere to an explicit and identifiable meter and rhyme scheme in a form such as the sonnet or ballad.
		Poetic meters such as iambic and anapestic that move or ascend from an unstressed to a stressed syllable.
	highered.mcgraw-hill.com /sites/0072405228/student_view0/poetic_glossary.html (3588 words)

	What Is a Meter? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In Meter in English, Robert Wallace argues that these conventional "meters" are really all the same meter, accentual-syllabic, and lie on a continuum from strict iambics to loose lines with mixed feet.
		In this poem, as in many in triple meter, the line-breaks run counter to the foot-divisions: between the last stress of the first line and the first stress of the second, there are the expected two unstressed syllables, but the line-break comes between them, indicating that they should belong to different feet.
		It is true that these are all accentual-syllabic meters, and that individual feet may be substituted from time to time, depending on the base meter, the position in the line, and the genre.
	www.stoa.org /~mahoney/review_meter.html (5558 words)

	564biblio
		Examines the origins of long-line and short-line free verse, free verse haunted by meter, and free verse that attempts to eschew all relationship to meter.
		A succinct and original introduction to linguistic theory as it applies to poetic form and to the construction of a poetic speaker.
		Finch modifies frame theory and theories of local metrical meaning ("local" as in metrical variations within the frame) with a proposal that metrical meaning is especially laden with meaning at periods of metrical change and controversy.
	mason.gmu.edu /~stichy/564biblio.html (2324 words)

	Diotima
		Horace's own statements about the models for his odes are unequivocal: he portrays himself as a poetic craftsman working in the tradition of Greek lyric poetry as it was practiced about 600BC on the island of Lesbos by the Greek poets Alcaeus and Sappho (C.1.1:34, 1.26:9-12, 1.32:5, 3.30:13-14, 4.3.11-12, 4.6:35).
		Meter is measurement, and what Latin meter measures are set patterns of syllables pronounced for a relatively long or short duration.
		These meters are often deployed in rhymed couplets or other stanzaic forms--some traditional and some nonce inventions--that lack even the slightest organic relationship to the Latin stanzas.
	www.stoa.org /diotima/anthology/horawillmet.shtml (1699 words)

	About Kirghizstan
		Lying in a bowl of snowy mountains it is situ- ated at an altitude of 1,607 meters, and stretches from East to West.
		The larger one is 6 km away from the near- est village and is 80 meters high, the small one - which faces the sun and gives rise to a rainbow- leaps out from a green wall at a height of 30 meters.
		Out of a round opening about 2 meters in diameter, from the vertical 100 meter-long wall, sparkling water noisily gushes, and myriads of tiny water particles are suspended in the air as a mist.
	tienshan.chat.ru /kirgh.html (4832 words)

	METRIFICATION
		The “national” meter in Spanish is the octosyllable (like the iambic pentameter is the English “national” meter).
		The other meters are used less often, although they certainly appear in early mester de juglaría poetry and even in the Romantic period..
		In Spanish poetry, the “normal” poetic stress falls on the penult.
	faculty-staff.ou.edu /L/A-Robert.R.Lauer-1/METRIFICATION.html (2830 words)

	Introduction
		The basic thesis was that the meter known as the dactylic hexameter of Greek epic originated from lyric meters and that these lyric meters have an ancient heritage that can at least be partially recovered through the comparative method of Indo-European linguistics.
		Conversely it is argued that the meters known to us as the hexameter, the elegiac distich, and the iambic trimeter are the formal markers, in the Classical period, of poetry in this stricter sense, that is, of verse that is not sung.
		The two major categories of meters that comprise the song-making traditions of Pindar, the so-called Aeolic and dactylo-epitrite, are shown to contain the building blocks of the iambic trimeter, the elegiac distich, and even the hexameter.
	www.press.jhu.edu /books/nagy/PHB/intro.html (7095 words)

	Florida Folklife Apprenticeships @ Florida OCHP
		Each meter describes accented and unaccented short and long syllables, as well as a pattern that includes the number of syllables per line and the number of lines per stanza.
		Common meter consists of a stanza of four lines, the first and third with eight syllables and the second and fourth with six syllables each.
		A short meter hymn consists of a stanza of four lines and a poetic foot composed of a short, unaccented syllable and long, unaccented syllable.
	dhr.dos.state.fl.us /preservation/folklife/apprenticeship/demps_t.cfm (2076 words)

	A Review of "Meter in English: A Critical Engagement"
		For Wallace, English meter must be based on patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables: "Meter is thus a system of measurement, conventional but natural to the language, which makes the rhythmic units of line more or less predictable to a reader or hearer of voice.
		That is, meter must involve measuring or counting something that is inherent in the language, and must allow the hearer or reader to recognize the pattern.
		That is, a poem in trochaic meter may allow a line in very strict iambic meter, which might also be called a trochaic line with anacrusis, or it may allow a dactylic foot provided the two unstressed syllables are actually pronounced as one: "barberry" in "Where the tangled barberry-bushes" ("Hiawatha," introduction, l.
	depts.washington.edu /versif/backissues/vol1/reviews/mahoney.html (5572 words)

	meter -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		An instrument that measures the flow of liquids, gases, or electricity is a meter.
		Meters may also be used to measure other physical data such as capacity, speed, or distance.
		Flow meters, sometimes call ratemeters, are the types of instruments most commonly associated with the word meter.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article?tocId=204540&ct= (518 words)

	Chapter 14
		In the case of Pindar we have seen that the heritage of his rhythmical repertory centers on the so-called dactylo-epitrite meters, as attested in the Dorian tradition of Stesichorus, and on the Aeolic meters, as attested in the Aeolian tradition of Sappho and Alcaeus.
		A similar description seems apt for the meters of Sappho and Alcaeus: a synthesis of dominant Aeolic and recessive Ionic (where the Ionic is cognate with the meters of Anacreon and even Hipponax).
		Also the way in which these dactylo-epitrite meters of Stesichorus frame traditional phraseology is clearly related to the way in which roughly half of the verses in Homeric poetry are built, that is, where the main word break occurs immediately after the sequence _m_m_ {FORMAT} ("masculine" caesura).
	www.press.jhu.edu /books/nagy/PHTL/chapter14.html (9375 words)

	The Eddas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Poetic Edda is the older of the two Eddas and therefore sometimes called the Elder Edda.
		Birger Nerman, in The Poetic Edda in the Light of Archaeology, puts forward the opinion that the majority of the stories must have been written before the Viking age.
		The Poetic Edda can be divided into two sections, a mythical one and a heroic one.
	www.ugcs.caltech.edu /~cherryne/edda.html (670 words)

	Meter and Foot
		There are many meters, but in English they aggregate around two general approaches, the accentual, where the number of strong stresses is equal on each line but not the number of syllables; and the accentual/syllabic, where both the number of strong stresses and the number of syllables is mostly identical in each line.
		In poetic meters, re-entry is a powerful tool, as strong statement and restatement of meter allows effective variations from it (the same is true of rhyme).
		From the quantity of verse employing it, it's clear that the most common and pleasing poetic foot to an English-hearing ear is the iamb, and that the most common variation in iambic lines is the trochee.
	www.n2hos.com /acm/prospart2.html (3228 words)

	Aristotle: Poetics (350 B.C.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		On the same principle, even if a writer in his poetic imitation were to combine all meters, as Chaeremon did in his Centaur, which is a medley composed of meters of all kinds, we should bring him too under the general term poet.
		The appropriate meter was also here introduced; hence the measure is still called the iambic or lampooning measure, being that in which people lampooned one another.
		As to that poetic imitation which is narrative in form and employs a single meter, the plot manifestly ought, as in a tragedy, to be constructed on dramatic principles.
	www.gerolf.org /texmf/doc/book/main.htm (13474 words)

	Books about Reading and Writing Poetry
		Poetic Meter and Poetic Form, by Paul Fussell (Random House, 1979), A Prosody Handbook, by Karl Shapiro and Robert Beum (Harper & Row, 1965), and The Poem's Heartbeat, by Alfred Corn (Story Line, 1997) are all good intermediate books on the subject.
		Meter in English: A Critical Engagement, edited by David Baker (Arkansas, 1996), is a symposium-in-print in which several poets and scholars answer a set of ten questions about the theory and practice of metrical poetry.
		The book is a detailed look at how free-verse poets have used the length of lines, the implied pause at the end of the line, and enjambment (the breaking of the line either at a natural pause in speech or in the middle of a phrase).
	www.panix.com /~tindall/p_recbk.html (1370 words)

	:: Common Ground Review ::
		A poem's meter is described using two factors.
		In determining the base meter of a poem don't worry about those small differences.
		Meter - foot length The second half of the meter name is just a number -- the number of feet in a line.
	cgreview.org /PoeticDevices.htm (1577 words)

	"The Future of Poetry"
		As a matter of fact, they practically gave up meters altogether; pretending that it was their intention to realize a subtler music for ears that experienced revulsion against the stupid monotone of the school meters; but apparently unable to adapt their new meanings and phrases to any formal requirements whatever.
		We forget entirely the enormous technical difficulty of the poetic art, and we examine the meanings of poems with a more and more microscopic analysis; we examine them in fact just as strictly as we examine the meanings of a prose which was composed without any handicap of metrical distrac
		When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /MAPS/poets/m_r/ransom/future.htm (1731 words)

	Psalm Stories: Poetic Meter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The meter can be described as a numeric schema: that is, a tune or text with meter of "8,6,8,6" has four lines; the first and third line have 8 syllables, and the second line has six syllables.
		Dactylic and anapestic meter consist of three-syllable feet, with the accent on the first and last syllable, respectively.
		For a poem to be sung to a tune, the musical and poetic accents must be compatible.
	rainbowskies.org /hymns/psalter/notes/cd_metr.htm (1273 words)

	Meter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It has been argued that Greek meter was not well suited to the Latin language, as Latin words have different long and short syllable sequences and they are based on accent rather than pitch.
		Roman meter is based on the quantity of its syllables, which may be long or short by nature or by position ( i.e., followed by two or more consonants).
		Dactylic hexameter was the meter the Romans used for epic and narrative poetry ( cf.
	www.vroma.org /~araia/scansion.html (354 words)

	Poetry of Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan
		The meters are iambs, trochees, spondees, anapests and dactyls.
		In this document the stressed syllables are marked in boldface type rather than the traditional "/" and "x." Each unit of rhythm is called a "foot" of poetry.
		The number of syllables in a line varies therefore according to the meter.
	groups.msn.com /poetryoftammynuzzomorgan/rhythmampmeterinenglishpoetry.msnw (271 words)

	Psalm 8: Lord, our Lord, thy glorious name (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It was designed to be sung to the meters common in gospel music of the time (the style that dominates our hymnals).
		Charles heartily disliked the psalm tunes of the time, for several reasons: the old tunes provided for very few poetic meters, while he wrote hymns in over 40 different meters; the old tunes were sung very slowly
		Its idiom, musical and poetic, is well within the scope even of our most provincial and sectarian hymnals.
	rainbowskies.org /hymns/psalter/texts/a008.htm (1075 words)

	Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music \| Vol. 9 No. 1 \| Louise K. Stein: The Origins and Character of recitado
		This same poetic meter is used also for the sung dialogue between Cupido and Anteros in Act III, which probably means that this section was set in recitative as well.
		The triple meter allows for the fluent passage from repetitive, syllabic declamation into brief instances of text painting or lyrical ornamentation, although these occur mainly at the ends of sections as part of extended cadential figures.
		Although Calderón’s abstract poetic language is rich in symbolism, it did not offer the composer many easy opportunities for simple word-painting or text expression (and these were, even in recitative, still a mainstay of Hidalgo’s expressive musical language).
	sscm-jscm.press.uiuc.edu /jscm/v9/no1/Stein.html (6328 words)

	Grant Schuyler's essay "The Later History of Poetry"
		To his poetic friends he urged the overthrow of iambic pentameter (and, by implication, of all metered verse).
		In the 1950s the American Beat poets continued to write very freely (meters often seem absent in their work), partly because they wished to express their radical freedom, and partly because they were in the tradition of Whitman and the 19th century French poets like Baudelaire and Rimbaud.
		This book is a clear guide to traditional meters and poetic forms, and has interesting examples and reflections.
	home.ca.inter.net /~grantsky/laterpoetry.html (1271 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Rap is not a musical movement but a poetic one, a 20th-century rebirth of opera.
		This sampled background served as a counterpoint to the rhythms of their poetic meters.
		Poetic texts that extolled misogyny, street crime and drugs, were, and still are favored over subtler, more clever poems.
	www.unitus.org /review/bland.txt (3257 words)

	Alfred's translation of Boethius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The sole medieval manuscript containing Alfred's poetic version of the Meters of Boethius was written around the middle of the tenth century.
		Fortunately, a transcript of the Meters had been made by the scholar Franciscus Junius in the seventeenth century, so the text has not been lost.
		The Old English poetic version of the Meters of Boethius was edited by George Philip Krapp, The Paris Psalter and the Meters of Boethius, Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, 5 (New York, 1932).
	www.engl.virginia.edu /OE/Tour/Manuscript.images/Boethius.html (234 words)

	Traditional Welsh poetic meters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Traditional Welsh poetic meters consist of twenty four different types of poetic meter.
		The twenty four traditional Welsh poetic meters are:
		This page was last modified 02:18, 3 March 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Traditional_Welsh_poetic_meters (56 words)

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