What meters are usually used in English poems and songs? Is English poetry tonic or syllabic or sylabo-tonic? What are these meters based on?
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What meters are usually used in English poems and songs? Is English poetry tonic or syllabic or sylabo-tonic? What are these meters based on?
As far as I understand, classical English poetry is syllabo-tonic much like classical Russian one. But contemporary "high poetry" in English is mostly vers libre while syllabo-tonic meters are left for song lyrics and children verses.