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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 can use assonance as a weak form of rhyming: two words are considered to rhyme if the vowel in the last syllable is the same. Assonance can also be used more freely.
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 v'''o'''ls jeopng hjaeg ts'''o'''p,''
''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.''