Meter is--it's a scheme for organizing verse, for organizing lines of verse.

抑扬格是安排韵文的一种体系，是为了安排每一行诗的韵文。

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It's instead a process of organizing pre-existing materials And imposing order on those chaotic materials.

相反，它是一个组织原来存在物质的过程,并且给这些混乱的物质赋予秩序。

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