CourseCompendium

Metre

RELATED TERMS: Music; Rhythm

Metre is the, usually repetitive, count of time in music, for example, 4 to a bar, 6 to a bar. In poetry, rhythm refers to the arrangement of syllables and stress in a poem, usually according to the number and kind of feet in a line.

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