the quantity of a short syllable in verse represented by the breve (˘)
Word origin
C16: from Latin: pause
Examples of 'morae' in a sentence
morae
Lines with multiple double morae of syllables with few characters are the most difficult.
Christopher Hench, Alex Estes 2018, 'A Metrical Analysis of Medieval German Poetry Using Supervised Learning', Frontiers in Digital Humanitieshttps://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fdigh.2018.00019/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)