Syllabic verse: Difference between revisions

'''Syllabic verse''' is a [[poetic form]] having a fixed or constrained number of [[syllable]]s per [[Line (poetry)|line]], while stress, quantity, or tone play a distinctly secondary role — or no role at all — in the verse structure. It is common in [[language]]s that are [[syllable-timed language|syllable-timed]], such as [[French language|French]] or [[Finnish language|Finnish]] — as opposed to [[stress-timed language]]s such as [[English language|English]], in which [[accentual verse]] and [[accentual-syllabic verse]] are more common.