Questions tagged [meter]

Questions about determining and representing the meter of a poem, a practice called scansion.

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Do English language poems actually have feet?

The question Catalectic trochaic tetrameter or acephaleous iambic tetrameter? Scanning "Kubla Khan" describes an interesting case when the placement of feet has no effect on the pronunciation of a line of verse. The line in question is "Floated…
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