Persian Meters Database

Recording 21

Meter:	LHLH - LLHH - LHLH - LLH (Meter 2)
Meter family:	6.o
Interval between taps:	12 moras
Time span:	0:18 --- 0:42
Average length of complete metra:	1.86s
Range of lengths of complete metra:	1.73s --- 2.12s
Length of metra that contain pauses:	1.77, 1.89, (1.78)
Performer:	Mohammad Reza Taheri

(*L	HL	H)	(LLH	H)(*LH	LH)(H	H	μμ)
be	hīch	jɑ	naresī-	d-ɑkharash	namɑzī	kē
(2.12	HL	H)	(1.78	H)(1.87	LH)(1.77	H	μμ)

(*L	HL	H)	(LLH	H)(*LH	LH)(H	H	μμ)
be	hīch	jɑ	naresī-	d-ɑkharash	namɑzī	kē
(1.95	HL	H)	(1.73	H)(1.89	LH)(1.89	H	μμ)

(*LHL	H)(L	L	H	H)(*L	H	LH)(L	LH	μμ)
barɑye	sajde	be	ɑn	khɑke	kū	niɑz	nadɑsht
(1.84	H)(1.80	L	H	H)(	H	pair-len:3.57	a	μμ)

Translation:

Eventually, they reached nowhere, the prayers of he
who did not need the soil of his land for prostration

Note:

The tempo is very slow and relatively unstable as the metron duration figures show. Finding the boundary between the last two metra is impossible because the boundary falls between the second and third moras of a superheavy syllable ("ɑz"). Therefore, the total duration of the two metra is reported instead. If we divide the duration by two, each of these two metra can be said to have taken roughly 1.78 seconds.