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| | an introduction to poetry rhythm and rhythmic analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | Verse is rarely completely regular, but if we a) add the spondee (two unstressed syllables) and the pyrrhic (two stressed syllables), and b) allow individual feet to be replaced (most commonly the iambic by a trochaic foot) then most verse can be scanned succinctly. |
 | | The classification includes type of line (dimeter with two feet, trimeter with three feet, tetrameter with four feet, pentameter with five feet, hexameter with six feet and heptameter with seven feet), and groupings by stanzas of various types. |
 | | These constituents are given the traditional labels of iambic (I), trochaic (T), anapaestic (A), or dactylic (D). |
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