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Line 78: :''See [[French poetry]]'' The modern French language does not have a significant stress accent (~~unlike~~as English does) or [[long syllable\|long]] and [[short syllable\|short]] syllables (as Latin does). This means that the French metric line is generally determined by the number of syllables. The most common metric lengths are the ten-syllable line ("décasyllabe"), the eight-syllable line ("octosyllabe") and the twelve-syllable line (the so-called "[[alexandrine]]"). Special syllable counting rules apply to French poetry. A silent or mute 'e' counts as a syllable before a consonant, but not before a vowel (where "[[h aspiré]]" counts as a consonant). When it falls at the end of a line, the mute "e" is hypermetrical (outside the count of syllables).

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