Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- 1. Music and meter -- A modular metrics for folk verse -- 2. Metricality -- What is "metricality"? English iambic -- pentameter -- 3. English meter -- Generated metrical form and implied metrical -- form -- Anapests and anti-resolution -- Shakespeare's lyric and dramatic metrical -- styles -- Longfellow's long line -- 4. Old Norse -- The rise of the quatrain in Germanic: musicality -- and word based rhythm in eddic meters -- 5. Mora counting meters -- The function of pauses in metrical studies: -- acoustic evidence from Japanese verse -- Iambic meter in Somali -- 6. Modelling statistical preferences -- Constraints, complexity, and the grammar of -- poetry -- Modelling the linguistics-poetics interface -- 7. Russian meter -- Generative metrics and the comparative approach: -- Russian iambic tetrameter in a comparative perspective -- Structural dynamics in the Onegin stanza -- 8. Classical and Romance metrics -- The ancient iambic trimeter: a disbalanced -- harmony -- Backmatter