We used the APCD dataset cited hereafter for pretraining the model. The dataset has been cleaned and only the main text and the meter columns were kept:
```
@Article{Yousef2019LearningMetersArabicEnglish-arxiv,
  author =       {Yousef, Waleed A. and Ibrahime, Omar M. and Madbouly, Taha M. and Mahmoud,
                  Moustafa A.},
  title =        {Learning Meters of Arabic and English Poems With Recurrent Neural Networks: a Step
                  Forward for Language Understanding and Synthesis},
  journal =      {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.05700},
  year =         2019,
  url =          {https://github.com/hci-lab/LearningMetersPoems}
}
```