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- calligraphy: Chalipa and Siah Mashgh. Chalipa consists of four diagonal hemistiches of a poem, which has clearly a moral, ethic and poetic theme. "چلیپا"...
- metre in classical French poetry is the alexandrine, composed of two hemistiches of six syllables each. Two famous alexandrines are La fille de Minos...
- dedicated to Saint Chayna. It contains 21 couplets and each verse has 2 hemistiches, of 10 syllables each. It is unknown if the author of the poem is ibn...
- of usually 14 through 16 syllables, each with a caesura between the hemistiches. The rhyme is ****onant. Since 1913, and following the work of Ramón Menéndez...
- up of two half-lines (in old-fashioned scholarship, these are called hemistiches) divided by a breath-pause or caesura. There must be at least one of...
- for court do****ents, nastaliq was developed for Persian poetry, "whose hemistiches encourage the pile-up of letters against the intercolumnar ruling. Only...
- in fourteen, but rather six lines, including four rows, each with two hemistiches and two 'tercets' each in a line extending over two rows." In Ladha's...
- Irregular verses, mainly between 14 and 16 syllables, divided in two hemistiches and with ****onant rhyme, as opposed to regular verses and consonant rhyme...
- seven basic syllables in each line, divided into three and four syllable hemistiches. When combined with the musical beat, this produces a natural rhythm...
- Uzbek religious woman held in great esteem. She produced over 15,000 hemistiches of verse and it is still po****r in Uzbekistan today. The Institute of...