Thread: Looking at dimeter
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Unread 10-08-2014, 03:38 PM
Susan McLean Susan McLean is offline
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Barb, I would call it accentual dimeter. In that, you count only the beats per line, but the number of syllables is variable. A lot of nursery rhymes are accentual.

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