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A Chick Corean meter is a set number of syllables per line, along with a division of each line into (usually two) sub-lines of certain lengths. | A Chick Corean meter is a set number of syllables per line, along with a division of each line into (usually two) sub-lines of certain lengths. | ||
Chick Corean poetry | Assonance is essential in Chick Corean poetry; traditionally, one creates a sense of rhythm by using assonance of certain syllables within a line, e.g. using the same vowel in odd-numbered or 1st-mod-''n'' syllables. Non-traditional assonance schemes are used in modern poetry and in whimsical, quasi-Hofstadterian "riddle poems". | ||
An example of a couplet with 4+4-lines: | An example of a couplet with 4+4-lines: | ||
<poem> | <poem> | ||
''Ftjud txngeob reoz | ''Ftjud txngeob reoz ‖ ts'''o'''p'' jeopng hjaeg | ||
''Tnyk tmjav pnje rj'''o'''ht, ‖ lats fjeltjar dv'''o'''ts.'' | ''Tnyk tmjav pnje rj'''o'''ht, ‖ lats fjeltjar dv'''o'''ts.'' | ||