> Three intonational features form the basis for three different metrical systems throughout the world. The Germanic languages use a prosody based on a stress system; the Romance languages use a prosody based on duration, as does Arabic poetry; while two thousand of the world’s languages, many of them Asian, use a system based on pitch. As far as I know, there is no prosodic system based on timbre, but one can be imagined.^[Dobyns, Stephen. Next Word, Better Word: The Craft of Writing Poetry. 1st ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.]