Your graph is intriguing. I don't yet understand it, but its apparent cyclical nature is interesting.

The Wolfram Language has provided several benefits for the development of my way of plotting poetic meter. It has provided...

• the phonetic (IPA) form of most English words through WordData
• a way to distinguish different parts of speech for words in context through TextStructure
• an efficient way to do string substitutions through StringReplace
• a way to match patterns through ReplaceAll and related functions
• a way to predict patterns with SequencePredict
• a flexible way to visualize or plot the metrical patterns through Graphics

So you don't get the wrong idea though, I didn't use a built-in type of plot in WL. Instead I used the general Graphics tool to arrange lines and shapes in a plane for display. The Graphics tool is like a blank canvas in which ideas can take shape. You could plot the meter in many different graphics programs, but it wouldn't look as good and it wouldn't have the flexibility and background support. For example, the way I'm revamping my meter plot now generates a data structure with info on each syllable. The plot comes from the data. I'm not aware of another programming environment that can do that.

@Khashan Khashan your images and ideas are interesting. It would be great if you could post you Wolfram Language code in these posts here, like Mark did and everyone else does on this form, without referencing to external documents. Then it would be very fun to reproduce and explore your results. I would love to see your code. You can also embed your notebook into the post or attach it to the post. Thank you for sharing ideas.

The graph plotting was done in this manner:

• create a grid on the coordinate plane {{{1,1}, {1,2}, {1,3}...}, {{2,1}, {2,2}, {2,3}}...}
• draw a line to the coordinate + {0, .5} for stressed syllables and + {0, -.5} for unstressed

This is a very simple thing to do in the Wolfram Language.

It is traditional in the sense that meter is traditionally thought of as a series of stressed and unstressed syllables, forming so many feet, in a predictable pattern. I don't recognize the foot as a unit though.

English syllables are stressed over a continuum from totally unstressed to undeniably stressed. In speech, the continuum of stresses become a nuance of pronunciation and musical intonation patterns. Our sense of rhythm in poetry though seems to rely on just two kinds of syllables: stressed and unstressed. Therefore, I try to boil every syllable down to either stressed (1) or unstressed (0). I use many factors to determine this, including the phonetic representation provided by WordData, whether there is a stop punctuation or end of line after the syllable, the consonant and vowel patterns, and some replacement rules that avoid too many consecutive stressed or unstressed syllables. I have also tried predicting what kind of rhythm it is, duple-meter or triple-meter, to resolve the remaining stresses, though my most recent version doesn't do this.

After that, I simply graph the 1's and 0's. In some ways what I'm doing is very traditional; in some ways not. I use Graphics[] to draw the output on a grid, but the lines are very much like an x-y plot of the stress values over time.