Classical Chinese poetry forms rules, of this poetry form. It is most associated with the eight-line style, although the same rules basically apply to the curtailed form ("jueju") and the expanded form ("pailu"). A form of regulated verse with eight lines of five characters each. A form of regulated verse with eight lines of seven characters each. The curtailed form is sometimes referred to as a "quatrain" due to its requirement to consist of four lines. Basically, the "jueju" is a shortened version of the eight-line version, resulting in a verse form which can more challenging in terms of conveying a complete poem or
Accentual-syllabic verse Word More" is an example of 10-syllable lines in trochaic metre: Anapestic lines can be found in Robert Browning's Summum Bonum: Accentual-syllabic verse Accentual-syllabic verse is an extension of accentual verse which fixes both the number of stresses and syllables within a line or stanza. Accentual-syllabic verse is highly regular and therefore easily scannable. Usually, either one metrical foot, or a specific pattern of metrical feet, is used throughout the entire poem; thus we can talk about a poem being in, for example, iambic pentameter. Poets naturally vary the rhythm of their lines, using devices such as inversion, elision, masculine