Editing Anceps (section)

==In Persian==
{{see|Persian metres}}
In classical Persian poetry, apart from ''brevis in longo'' (see below), ''anceps'' elements are for the most part found only at the beginning of a line. In most<ref>For an exception see Elwell-Sutton, L.P. (1976). [https://books.google.com/books?id=Smy5GE48bWsC ''The Persian Metres'']. Cambridge University Press, p. 137.</ref> metres which begin with two short syllables, the first may be replaced by a long.<ref>Elwell-Sutton, L.P. (1976). [https://books.google.com/books?id=Smy5GE48bWsC ''The Persian Metres'']. Cambridge University Press, p. 86.</ref> Thus the meter ''khafīf'' (the most common metre used in [[Saadi Shirazi|Saadi]]'s [[Gulistan (book)|Golestān]]),<ref>Thiesen, Finn (1982). [https://issuu.com/rchakravarti/docs/manualclassicalpersianprosody_finnthiesen ''A Manual of Classical Persian Prosody, with chapters on Urdu, Karakhanidic and Ottoman prosody.''] Wiesbaden, p. 261.</ref> has the following form:
:| x u – – | u – u – | u u – |

In such verses, the ''anceps'' is long in about 80% of cases.<ref>Elwell-Sutton, L.P. (1976). [https://books.google.com/books?id=Smy5GE48bWsC ''The Persian Metres'']. Cambridge University Press, p. 128, 132.</ref>

The only other place in Persian metre where there is a choice between long and short is in the ''[[ruba'i]]'' metre used in Omar Khayyam's quatrains, which goes as follows:
:| – – | – <u>u u</u> – | x x u – | – <u>u u</u> – |

The two ''ancipitia'' may be either u – or – u, but not two shorts or two longs. (The first is slightly more common.)<ref>Elwell-Sutton, L.P. (1976). The Persian Metres. Cambridge University Press, p. 135.</ref>