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| alliteration | repetition of beginning consonant sounds |
| end rhyme | rhyme occurring at the end of lines |
| consonance | repetition of ending consonant sounds |
| feminine rhyme | when two syllables of a word rhyme |
| masculine rhyme | when one syllable of a word rhymes |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| rhyme scheme | marking the pattern of end rhyme with letters of the alphabet |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| enjambment | when the sense of the line moves without pause on into the next line; a run-on line |
| end-stopped | when the sense of the line corresponds with a natural speech pause; a mark of punctuation ends the line of poetry |
| caesura | pause marked by punctuation marks or not(includes rhetorical pause and grammatical pause) |
| free verse | nonmetrical poetry in which the basic rhythmic unit is the line and in which pauses, line breaks and formal patterns develop organically from the requirements of individual poems rather than from the established poetic forms |
| foot | metrical unit of poetry; a combination of unstressed and stressed syllables |
| scansion | marking a poem's stressed and unstressed syllables. |
| stanza | a group of lines whose metrical pattern and usually its rhyme scheme as well is repeated throughout a poem |
| slant rhyme | a term used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rhymes |
| internal rhyme | a rhyme in which one or both of the rhyme words occurs within the line |
| prose poem | a poem with the ordinary rhythms of prose; a short composition having the intentions of poetry but written in prose rather than verse |
