Middle Eastern poetry often uses quantitative verse as a measure but then again, it is sometimes described in syllabic terms. Like the Asian languages, Middle Eastern prosody sometimes requires measure of other factors. Or we will often attempt to reduce to the lowest common denominator and simply count syllables, still a little warped. In English, quantitative verse is sometimes difficult to discern and we transition to Accentual Syllabic by default which warps the intent a bit. But the English ear doesn't readily recognize the long and short sounds as easily as stressed and unstressed sounds. There was a failed attempt in 16 th century England to emulate Greek meters using long and short vowel sounds by the Classists. However, Quantitative measures are made up of a combination of long and short vowel sounds.
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