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The art or study of using metrical and rhyming devices in poetry.
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The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
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A unit of meter (stressed and unstressed syllables)
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one soft stress followed by a hard stress
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one hard stress followed by a soft stress |
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One hard stress followed by 2 soft stresses
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One hard stress followed by 2 soft stresses
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No set rhyme, no set meter
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Unrhymed iambic pentameter
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