Poetic term of the day — May 1, 2008

POULTER’S MEASURE: A meter consisting of alternate Alexandrines and fourteeners, i.e., twelve-syllable and fourteen-syllable lines, a common measure in Elizabethan times.

At left: Rhiannon, Welsh goddess of poetry

illustration: www.district117gallery.com/bin/DanielleSmith.php

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