Metrical typology

2024-03-20

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Example of a taxonomy of types of metre and some metrical features:

<classDecl xml:lang="en">
<taxonomy xml:id="verse">
<category xml:id="dactylic">
<catDesc>
<gloss>Dactylic</gloss>
</catDesc>
<category xml:id="dactylic.hexameter">
<catDesc>
<gloss>Dactylic hexameter</gloss>
</catDesc>
</category>
<category xml:id="dactylic.pentameter">
<catDesc>
<gloss>Dactylic pentameter</gloss>
</catDesc>
</category>
<category xml:id="dactylic.elegiac">
<catDesc>
<gloss>Dactylic: elegiac</gloss>
</catDesc>
</category>
</category>
<category xml:id="iambo-trochaic">
<catDesc>
<gloss>Iambo-trochaic</gloss>
</catDesc>
<category xml:id="iambo-trochaic.senarius">
<catDesc>
<gloss>Iambic senarius</gloss>
</catDesc>
</category>
<category xml:id="iambo-trochaic.septenarius">
<catDesc>
<gloss>Trochaic septenarius</gloss>
</catDesc>
</category>
</category>
<category xml:id="nonstandard">
<catDesc>
<gloss>Nonstandard metre</gloss>
</catDesc>
</category>
</taxonomy>
<taxonomy xml:id="scheme">
<category xml:id="quantitative">
<catDesc>
<gloss>Quantitative</gloss>
</catDesc>
</category>
<category xml:id="accentuating">
<catDesc>
<gloss>Accentuating</gloss>
</catDesc>
</category>
<category xml:id="mixed">
<catDesc>
<gloss>mixed</gloss>
</catDesc>
</category>
</taxonomy>
<taxonomy xml:id="pause">
<category xml:id="caesura">
<catDesc>
<gloss>Caesura</gloss>
</catDesc>
</category>
<category xml:id="diaeresis">
<catDesc>
<gloss>Diaeresis</gloss>
</catDesc>
</category>
<category xml:id="penthemimeral">
<catDesc>
<gloss>Penthemimeral</gloss>
</catDesc>
</category>
<category xml:id="trithemimeral">
<catDesc>
<gloss>Trithemimeral</gloss>
</catDesc>
</category>
<category xml:id="hephthemimeral">
<catDesc>
<gloss>Hephthemimeral</gloss>
</catDesc>
</category>
<category xml:id="trochaic">
<catDesc>
<gloss>Trochaic</gloss>
</catDesc>
</category>
</taxonomy>
</classDecl>

See also:

Other pages describing <lg>:

Other pages describing <l>:

Other pages describing <metDecl>:

Responsibility for this section

  1. Simona Stoyanova, author
  2. Gabriel Bodard, author
  3. Charlotte Tupman, author

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Date: 2024-03-20