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.
There are other formal elements besides meter, including the various poetic devices (assonance, consonance, metaphor, simile, symbolism, etc.) and the way the poem is presented on the page, but the bloodlines of formal poetry begin with meter.