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scale-based meter

Meter
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A metrical system organized according to musical scales or proportional relationships, often used in experimental or cross-art poetry.

Detailed Definition
Scale-based meter organizes rhythm through hierarchical levels of stress or duration, analyzing patterns from individual syllables up through feet, lines, and larger structures. This approach recognizes meter as operating simultaneously at multiple scales, creating complex rhythmic architecture.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Greek poetry, scale-based meter uses musical scales (Dorian, Phrygian) to shape rhythm; Contemporary experimental poets assign pitches to vowels for scale-based meter; In medieval plainchant poetry, neumes dictated scale-based recitation; Student exercise: poem where stressed syllables follow C-major scale; Another: using blues scale intervals to structure line breaks.
Additional Notes
Metrical systems based on mathematical proportions or musical scales rather than traditional stress-based or syllabic patterns.
Also Known As
Musical meter Song-based measure Melodic prosody Tune-based rhythm Diatonic meter
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