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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=linguistics">linguistics</a>, <b>syllable weight</b> is the concept that syllables pattern together according to the number and/or duration of <a href="page.php?w=segment_%28linguistics%29">segments</a> in the <a href="page.php?w=syllable_rime">rime</a>. In classical Indo-European verse, as developed in <a href="page.php?w=Prosody_%28Greek%29">Greek</a>, <a href="page.php?w=Sanskrit">Sanskrit</a>, and <a href="page.php?w=Prosody_%28Latin%29">Latin</a>, distinctions of syllable weight were fundamental to the <a href="page.php?w=metre_%28poetry%29">meter</a></p><p>
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