Lurkers, poetic forms

> > Misaraeli alana 'e nadiku rihanayu.
> > Miailahueli šimi qarunu matisari.
> > Mu kevanaruele šehanu,
> > Mueredelemo šadunu mahaelu.
>
> Me like! It reminds me of... or maybe it's just a deja vu or
> something... hmm.
>
> t.
Thank you.  I designed it to look a bit like a distant IE offshoot; many of
the roots I have are mangled versions of words from various natlangs.  <nadi,
from Gujarati or Hindi, ilahu from Arabic through Swahili, muerede from the
Romance family, etc.>  If you're getting a deja vu, it seems I've done
something right.
It was a nice coincidence too, that every line started with /m/.  Maybe it'll
be a Rišuli poetic form, some syllable-count pattern and lines beginning with
some series of letters.  Alliterative verse would likely be the next
development from there, along with pure syllable-count forms like the haiku
(which'll never workin its pure form; most inflected forms are a good 4-5
syllables long anyway.)
Incidentally, is mora a purely Japanese term? Does it have the same definition
for all languages, or do each lang's mora have different tendencies?  I take
the accepted Japanese definition to be mora: (syllable or syllabic consonant.
long vowels are two mora.)  Are other Japanese poetic styles also related to
mora-count, or are there also other styles?

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-Shreyas
Loth 77
http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/lothlorien/artists/ssampat/ssampat.html