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Discipline · in Prosody

Syllables and Metre

How Tibetan verse is counted: the tsheg, the line of seven or nine, the feet, and the stress that closes a line.

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Every syllable ends in a tsheg, so every syllable can be counted, and a line of Tibetan verse is defined by its count. The common lines are seven and nine syllables, read as pairs with a closing foot of three; the ornate register uses eleven, thirteen and fifteen. The pages here will teach the counting, the feet, and how to hear a line.