Treatments and drugs. Most cases of hiccups go away on their own without medical treatment. If an underlying medical condition is causing your hiccups, treatment of that illness may eliminate the hiccups. The following treatments may be considered for hiccups that have lasted longer than two days.
Poetry that overtly uses the effects of metre, rhyme and form, especially the fixed forms (sonnets, villanelles etc) is known as formal verse.
Now we're getting somewhere: the dominant gene of formal poetry is meter, and meter is simply the rhythm of words, a rhythm we can hear with our ears and tap our hands and feet in time to. Meter allows us to keep time with the poem.