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==Rhyme and meter== The basic metrical [[Foot (prosody)|unit]] is the [[Iamb (foot)|iamb]], unusual for the Czech poetry at that time, and probably inspired by [[Romantic poetry#English Romanticism of the Age|English romanticism]], particularly by [[George Gordon Byron]]. Czech medieval and folk [[Czech literature|poetry]] did not yet use word stress count as an element of prosody, while their [[Renaissance]] poetry was mainly [[Dactyl (poetry)|dactylic]].<ref name="may"/> Most of the poem rhymes in an ABBA pattern, and while most of the lines are [[tetrameter]]s, some of the longer non-narrative [[Lyric poetry|lyrical]] descriptions consist of longer lines. Sometimes the poet uses longer dashes to indicate stops that are nonetheless part of the line, such as in the second canto, where the dripping of water measures out the convict's time: "zní--hyne--zní a hyne-- / zní--hyne--zní a hyne zas--" ("sound--die--sound and die-- / sound--die--sound and die again").
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