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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. | ||
Assonance is essential in Chick Corean poetry; traditionally, one creates a sense of rhythm by using assonance | Assonance is essential in Chick Corean poetry; traditionally, one creates a sense of rhythm by using assonance in certain patterns, e.g. using the same vowel in the beginning of a sub-line, or 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: | ||