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| meter | The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables established in a line of poetry. |
| metrical foot | A unit of meter. |
| iamb (foot) | A two-syllable foot with the stress on the second syllable; the most common foot in English. |
| trochee (foot) | A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. |
| spondee (foot) | two stressed syllables |
| pyrrhic (foot) | two unstressed syllables |
| dactyl (foot) | three syllables with the stress on the first syllable |
| anapest (foot) | three syllables with the stress on the last syllable. |
| monometer | one-foot line |
| dimeter | two-foot line |
| trimeter | three-foot line |
| tetrameter | four-foot line |
| pentameter | five-foot line |
| hexameter | six-foot line |
| heptameter | seven-foot line |
| octometer | eight-foot line |
| caesura | a pause within a line of poetry |
| enjambment | in poetry, the running over of a sentence form one verse or stanza into the next without stopping at the end of the first. When the sentence or meaning does stop at the end of the line it is called END-STOPPED. |
| end-stop: | a pause at the end of a line indicating that the unit of thought also stops. |
| rhyme | the similarity or likeness of sound existing between two words |
| masculine rhyme | occurs when one syllable of a word rhymes with another word: bend and send; bright and light |
| feminine rhyme | occurs when the last two syllables of a word rhyme with another word: lawful and awful; lighting and fighting |
| alliteration | the repetition of the initial letter or sound in two or more words in a line of verse. |
| assonance | the similarity or repetition of an internal vowel sound in two or more words. Lake and stake are rhymes; lake and fate are assonance. Base and face are rhymes; base and fate are assonance. |
| consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds within a line of verse. Similar to alliteration except that consonance doesnt limit the repeated sound to the initial letter or a word. |
| onomatopoeia | the use of a word to represent or imitate natural sounds (buzz, crunch, tingle, gurgle, sizzle, hiss) |
| refrain | the repetition of one or more phrases or lines at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza, often taking the form of a chorus. |
| repetition | the reiterating of a word or phrase within a poem. |
