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	Guide to Verse Forms - Metre
		The metre is the rhythm of a poem.
		Repeating patterns in the metre are an important element - some would say the main element - in the structure of poetry.
		It is used widely in rhymed poetry; it is also the metre of blank verse e.g.
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	Poetry - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the case of free verse, the rhythm of lines is often organized into looser units of cadence.
		The main units that are used are the line, the couplet, the strophe, the stanza, and the verse paragraph.
		In blank verse, verse paragraphs are employed to indicate natural breaks in the flow of the poem.
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /p/po/poetry_1.html (1433 words)

	rhythmic anlysis: contemporary approaches (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Metre is a contentious subject, and studies based on mechanical, musical, organic and linguistic analogies have shown how little is currently understood.{1} Nonetheless, as defined as some pattern of phonological stress, pitch and/or length, rhythm is an inescapable element of poetry.
		Syllabic verse as exemplified by the French alexandrine is not strictly metrical, and twentieth century attempts to write a pure syllabic verse in English have not caught on.
		Whitman to Ginsberg: The Cadences of Free Verse.
	www.textetc.com /elements/rhythm.html (8701 words)

	Wikinfo \| Poetry
		Poems are literary works meant to be read or spoken, usually relying strongly on word choice, sounds, and imagery to create a mood in the audience's mind or ear which may be romantic, ominous, wistful, sensual, inspiring, or daring.
		Poetry, the art of creating poems, also known as verse, may be defined in opposition to prose, which is language which is meant to convey meaning, with lesser emphasis on mood, word choice, and exact form of expression.
		For example Ancient Greek metre was based on vowel length rather than stress patterns, and Old English poetry used alliteration extensively; neither made great use of rhyme.
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	Metre
		Metre (or meter) is derived from the Greek word for "measure." The metre is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse.
		While there may be some variation or substitution, the number of syllables, and the number of stressed/unstressed syllables remains relatively consistent from line to line.
		The iambic metre is thought to be closest to the normal human speech pattern it is also the commonest form of metre because it fits the English language so well.
	www.burtonsys.com /metre2.htm (635 words)

	Marjorie Perloff \| "After Free Verse: The New Non-Linear Poetries" \| poetry articles \| plagiarist.com
		The history of free verse in English remains to be written: when it is, it will be clear that the dominant example has been, not that of Ezra Pound, whose ideographic page has only recently become a model for poets, but that of William Carlos Williams...
		Free verse is the introduction into the continuous flow of prose language, which has breaks determined entirely by syntax and sense, of another kind of break, shown on the page by the start of a new line, and often indicated in a reading of the poem by a slight pause.
		The speech-base of free verse is also accepted by Northrop Frye, who defines it as "the associative rhythm"--that is the rhythm of ordinary speech, with its short, repetitive, irregular, often asyntactic phrasal units-- "strongly influenced by verse," which is to say by lineation.
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	Metre & Kaluza's Law - a glossary
		Metre also tends to suggest (since ordinary people don't speak in meter) the vatic role of the poet, just as it tends to invest with a mysterious air of permanence and authority the words which are cut to its pattern.
		VERSE - A verse is the basic unit of Old English poetry.
		The 'ideal' verse in Old English has four syllables and two stresses, but many verses deviate in constrained ways from this pattern, so that it is more correct to say that a normal verse has four positions.
	www.heorot.dk /metre-glossary.html (1271 words)

	circle of poets, rythm, poetry, poetry contest, poetry competition (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Free verse originated in France around the middle of the nineteenth century, was championed (briefly) by the founders of Modernism, and has ramified into various forms, some of them indistinguishable from prose.
		In poetry, as in creative writing, traditional verse is overshadowed by the achievements of the past.
		As a loosening of traditional metre, the form reappears in 17 th century French poetry, and again in 19 th century poetry throughout the European languages.
	rythm.circleofpoets.com (7941 words)

	pyrrhic - OneLook Dictionary Search
		pyrrhic : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
		Pyrrhic, pyrrhic : UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
		Pyrrhic : Worthless Word For The Day [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=pyrrhic&ls=a (273 words)

	versification
		The line or verse of poetry is a fundamental unit of meter and is divided somewhat arbitrarily into feet according to the major and minor stresses.
		Blank verse became the great dramatic line in the 16th cent., while the heroic couplet was the dominant form in 18th-century English verse.
		Sterling Brown and the 'vestiges' of the blues: the role of race in English verse structure.
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	What is Poetry? - Verse - Poems - Haiku - Haibun - Literature - Haryana Online - India
		In the case of free verse, the rhythm of lines is often organized into looser units of cadence.
		In blank verse, verse paragraphs are employed to indicate natural breaks in the flow of the poem.
		The Greek's practice of singing hymns in large choruses gave rise, in the 6th century BC to dramatic verse, and to the practice of writing poetic plays for performance in their theatres.
	haryana-online.com /Poetry/what_is_poetry.htm (1380 words)

	Exciting Writing Teaching Resources: Metre
		This topic sheet was originally devised for the Verse Technique and Poetry course.
		If one accepts the definition of a foot as fundamentally a stressed syllable, there is no such thing as a pyrrhic foot.
		This should come as no surprise, since it is difficult to think of an example of a meaningful pyrrhic foot: perhaps the indefinite article on its own?
	www.excitingwriting.info /ecw/evtp/metre.html (210 words)

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