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A poetic line that has a pause at the end.
End-stopped lines reflect normal speech patterns and are often marked with a period, comma, colon, semicolon, exclamation point, or question mark |
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Rhyme in which the final accented vowel and all succeeding consonants or syllables are identical, while the preceding consonants may be different. |
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When words look alike but do not rhyme:
bough and cough, or brow and blow |
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The most common form of rhyme in poetry; the rhyme comes at the end of the lines |
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Places at least one of the rhymed words within the line as in:
“In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud” |
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Consists of a rhymed stressed syllable followed by one or more identical unstressed syllables,
such as gratitude and attitude; quivering and shivering |
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Describes the rhyming of single-syllable words such as grade and shade; or of rhyming words or more than one syllable when the same sound occurs in the final stressed syllable, as in defend and contend. |
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Words that have the same vowel sound in the second-to-last and last syllables.
For example: soaring
adoring
weary
dreary
conviction
prediction |
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A partial or imperfect rhyme
Also called approximate rhyme, half rhyme, near rhyme, oblique rhyme, slant rhyme. |
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A harmonious succession of words or when the combination of consonants and vowels in a line or passage sound pleasing and suit the meaning of the poem. |
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the use of words that combine sharp, harsh, hissing, or unmelodious sounds.
Example: We want no parlay with you and your grisly gang who work your wicked will. |
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A unit of a poem, similar in rhyme, meter, and length to other units in the poem; usually a repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme |
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Two lines of rhyming poetry |
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a four line stanza
(Shakespearean Sonnet - 3 quatrains and couplet) |
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