TEI P4 Beta: Reference Documentation

`metrical` | elements carrying metrical information.
Attributes: |
`met` | contains a user-specified encoding for the conventional metrical structure of the element.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: May contain either a standard term for the kind of metrical unit (e.g. ``hexameter'') or an encoded representation for the metrical pattern (e.g. ``+--+-+-+-+-''). In either case, the notation used should be documented by a `<metNotation>` element within the `<encodingDesc>` of the associated header.
| Default: %INHERITED
Note | Where this attribute is not specified, the metrical pattern for the element concerned is understood to be inherited from its parent.
`real` | contains a user-specified encoding for the actual realization of the conventional metrical structure applicable to the element.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: May contain either a standard term for the kind of metrical unit (e.g. ``hexameter'') or an encoded representation for the metrical pattern (e.g. ``+--+-+-+-+-''). In either case, the notation used should be documented by a `<metNotation>` element within the `<encodingDesc>` of the associated header.
| Default: #IMPLIED
Note | Where this attribute is not specified, the metrical realization for the element concerned is understood to be identical to that specified or implied for the `met` attribute.
`rhyme` | specifies the rhyme scheme applicable to a group of verse lines.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: By default, the rhyme scheme is expressed as a string of alphabetic characters each corresponding with a rhyming line. Any non-rhyming lines should be represented by a hyphen or an X. Alternative notations may be defined as for `met` by use of the `<metNotation>` element in the TEI header.
| Default: #IMPLIED
| Example:
        <lg rhyme='ABABABCC'> ... </lg>
Note | When the default notation is used, it does not make sense to specify this attribute on any unit smaller than a line. Nor does the default notation provide any way to record internal rhyme, or to specify non-conventional rhyming practice. These extensions would require user-defined alternative notations.

Note

Tagset base tag set for verse texts
Class
Filename `teivers2.ent`
Parents [none]
Members l lg lg1 lg2 lg3 lg4 lg5
Declaration `<!ENTITY % a.metrical ' %a.global met CDATA %INHERITED real CDATA #IMPLIED rhyme CDATA #IMPLIED' >`
See 9.4

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