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Alliteration

The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: -

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Rhyme 76% connected

An expression of thought in numbers, measure, or verse; a composition in verse; a rhymed tale; poetry; harmony of language.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Rime 76% connected

A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.

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Alliterate 74% connected

To employ or place so as to make alliteration.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Alliterate 74% connected

To employ or place so as to make alliteration.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Isosyllabism noun · 78% connection

(linguistics, poetry) the use of isosyllabic verse.; "But it is likewise true that — especially in the context of the eighteenth centu…

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Beginning rhyme noun · 78% connection

use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; "initial rhyme such as ‘around the rock the r…

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Blank verse noun · 78% connection

unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)

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Elegy noun · 78% connection

a mournful poem; a lament for the dead

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Enjambement noun · 78% connection

the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause

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Enjambment noun · 78% connection

the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause

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Free verse noun · 78% connection

unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern

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Haiku noun · 78% connection

an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines

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Head rhyme noun · 78% connection

use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; "initial rhyme such as ‘around the rock the r…

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Initial rhyme noun · 78% connection

use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; "initial rhyme such as ‘around the rock the r…

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Lament noun · 78% connection

a mournful poem; a lament for the dead

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Ode noun · 78% connection

a lyric poem with complex stanza forms

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Stanza noun · 78% connection

a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem

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Vers libre noun · 78% connection

unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern

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A unknown · 78% connection

The first letter of the English and of many other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and Western Europe, as also the…

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Ae unknown · 78% connection

A diphthong in the Latin language; used also by the Saxon writers. It answers to the Gr. ai. The Anglo-Saxon short ae was generally re…

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Alternate adjective · 78% connection

Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, re…

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Anadiplosis noun · 78% connection

repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next

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Anaphora noun · 78% connection

A repetition of a word or of words at the beginning of two or more successive clauses.

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Antanaclasis noun · 78% connection

A repetition of words beginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has a…

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Byzantine noun · 78% connection

A native or inhabitant of Byzantium, now Constantinople; sometimes, applied to an inhabitant of the modern city of Constantinople. C (…

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Chromatic adjective · 78% connection

Proceeding by the smaller intervals (half steps or semitones) of the scale, instead of the regular intervals of the diatonic scale.

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Consecutive adjective · 78% connection

Following in a train; succeeding one another in a regular order; successive; uninterrupted in course or succession; with no interval o…

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Cue noun · 78% connection

The last words of a play actor's speech, serving as an intimation for the next succeeding player to speak; any word or words which ser…

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Following adjective · 78% connection

Next after; succeeding; ensuing; as, the assembly was held on the following day.

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Gyve verb · 78% connection

To fetter; to shackle; to chain. H () the eighth letter of the English alphabet, is classed among the consonants, and is formed with t…

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Herringbone noun · 78% connection

a pattern of columns of short parallel lines with all the lines in one column sloping one way and lines in adjacent columns sloping th…

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Inceptive adjective · 78% connection

Beginning; expressing or indicating beginning; as, an inceptive proposition; an inceptive verb, which expresses the beginning of actio…

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Incoming adjective · 78% connection

Coming in, succeeding, or following, as occupant or possessor; as, in incoming tenant.

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Indentation noun · 78% connection

The act of beginning a line or series of lines at a little distance within the flush line of the column or page, as in the common way…

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Intersperse verb · 78% connection

To diversify or adorn with things set or scattered at intervals; to place something at intervals in or among; as, to intersperse a boo…

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Izzard noun · 78% connection

The letter z; -- formerly so called. J () J is the tenth letter of the English alphabet. It is a later variant form of the Roman lette…

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