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===Italian=== In Italian poetry, metre is determined solely by the position of the last accent in a line, the position of the other accents being however important for verse equilibrium. Syllables are enumerated with respect to a verse which ends with a [[paroxytone]], so that a Septenary (having seven syllables) is defined as a verse whose last accent falls on the sixth syllable: it may so contain eight syllables (''Ei fu. Siccome im<U>mo</U>bile'') or just six (''la terra al nunzio <U>sta</U>''). Moreover, when a word ends with a vowel and the next one starts with a vowel, they are considered to be in the same syllable (synalepha): so ''Gli anni e i giorni'' consists of only four syllables ("Gli an" "ni e i" "gior" "ni"). Even-syllabic verses have a fixed stress pattern. Because of the mostly [[trochee|trochaic]] nature of the Italian language, verses with an even number of syllables are far easier to compose, and the [[Novenary (meter)|Novenary]] is usually regarded as the most difficult verse. Some common metres in Italian verse are: * Sexenary: A line whose last stressed syllable is on the fifth, with a fixed stress on the second one as well (''Al <u>Re</u> Travi<u>cel</u>lo / Pio<u>vu</u>to ai ra<u>noc</u>chi'', Giusti) * [[Septenary (meter)|Septenary]]: A line whose last stressed syllable is the sixth one. * [[Octosyllable]]: A line whose last accent falls on the seventh syllable. More often than not, the secondary accents fall on the first, third and fifth syllable, especially in nursery rhymes for which this metre is particularly well-suited. * [[Hendecasyllable]]: A line whose last accent falls on the tenth syllable. It therefore usually consists of eleven syllables; there are various kinds of possible accentuations. It is used in sonnets, in ''ottava rima'', and in many other types of poetry. [[The Divine Comedy]], in particular, is composed entirely of hendecasyllables, whose main stress pattern is on the 4th and 10th syllable.<ref>Hardison, O.B. (1999). Prosody and purpose in the English renaissance. Johns Hopkins University Press. {{ISBN|0801837227}}.</ref>
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