Meter ( page 240 ).
Questions.
1. What is euphony? How does it differ from meter, measure, and rhythm? 2. How are rhythm and meter produced? 3. How does meter differ from rhythm? 4. What is a verse in the strict sense? In what wider sense is the word often used?
Examples.
—— is a very vague and unscientific term. Each nation considers its own language, each tribe its own dialect, euphonic.
—— may be defined to be a succession of poetical feet arranged in regular order according to certain types recognized as standards, in verses of a determinate length.
We have three principal domains in which —— manifests its nature and power—dancing, music, poetry.