WORLD ATLAS OF POETIC TRADITIONS

Syllable-stress meter

• Tocharian: Complex

Syllable-counting meter

• Bugis: 5-syllable meter, 8-syllable meter, 8-7-6-syllable meter
• Maringarr: Dependent on musical mode
• Saho: 9-syllable meter, 12-syllable meter with caesura
• Soqotri: 8-syllable meter

Rhyme-based organization of poetry

• Saho

Predominantly parallelistic organization of poetry

• K'iche'
• Kpwe

Paired words

• Mesoamerican difrasismo
  • K'iche'

Archaisms

• Bugis oxytonal shortening, where formerly bisyllabic stressed monosyllables are counted as two syllables

Kenning and indirect speech

• Soqotri "veiled speech", a device by which a poem has a surface meaning and a "veiled" double meaning
• Bugis élong mailung bettuanna, a poetic genre involving three layers of meaning

Syntactic devices

• Maringarr serialization