. The rhythm of poetry in medieval French is based on a fixed number of syllables in a line. Longer lines are frequently divided by a pause, called a caesura, into parts called hemistiches. Although examples exist of lines from one to fifteen...

This refers to the poetic rhythm of a text determined by the number of feet, or beats, to the line and the nature of the stress on syllables. For example, an iambic metre uses iambuses which each consist of a stressed and unstressed syllable, for...

n. 1. The analysis of the metrical structure of verse. 2. In Metrical Phonology, the analysis of metrical structure (stress...

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Meter (British English spelling: metre) describes the linguistic sound patterns of a verse. Scansion is the analysis of poetry's metrical and rhythmic patterns. Prosody is sometimes used to describe poetic meter, and indicates the analysis of similar...