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Basics of Metre In Poems 1

rhythmic structure of a verse study of metre prosody patterns of syllables of types stressed syllables at regular interval qualitative long short short dactyl long long spondee in dead classics alexandrine twelve syllables in french five characters in chinese all rules then people had lot of time to spare sequence of feet is a metre too stressed and unstressed like people five iambic feet are iambic pentameter paradise lost and sonnets trochee is stressed unstressed reverse of iamb then spondee anapest dactyl amphibrach pyrrhic metric cousins iamb in two anapest in three common modern english unrhymed iambic penta is blank verse bill and milton liked it rhymed pair of lines in iambic is heroic couplet now for humor

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