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| | Meter (poetry) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | This meter was used most often in the Sapphic stanza, named after the Greek poet Sappho, who wrote many of her poems in the form. |
| | In the Sapphic stanza, three hendecasyllabics are followed by an "Adonic" line, made up of a dactyl and a trochee. |
| | 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. |
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