The most likely reason for the discrepancy is literary license and a desire to fit within a certain poetic meter.

Thus, the title of a certain ci may have nothing to do with its contents, although the poetic meter is the same.

He made fundamental contributions to the modern theory of poetic meter and morphosyntax.

An alexandrine is a line of poetic meter comprising 12 syllables.

In the analysis of poetic meter, weak position is either of two things:

Each morning, he pounds out the 26 poetic meters on the bag.

Veale states that there are other similarities in writing styles besides the use of the same poetic meter.

English language poetic meter depends on stress, rather than the number of syllables.

The table below is based on one scholar's interpretation of the play's structural elements and the poetic meters associated with them.

The manuscript is written in the poetic meter iambic septenarius.