(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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unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
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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…
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Poetry.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…
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Poetry.a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Poetry.the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Poetry.the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Poetry.unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Poetry.an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Poetry.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…
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Poetry.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…
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Poetry.a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Poetry.a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Poetry.a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Poetry.unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
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Having each verse begin with the same letter as that with which the preceding verse ends.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unrhymed, verse, iambic, pentameter.A kind of verse, so called from Alcaeus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two d…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unrhymed, verse, iambic, pentameter.A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unrhymed, verse, iambic, pentameter.Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unrhymed, verse, iambic, pentameter.Consisting of two iambic dimeters catalectic, the last of which lacks the final syllable; -- said of a kind of verse.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unrhymed, verse, iambic, pentameter.Half a poetic verse or line, or a verse or line not completed.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unrhymed, verse, iambic, pentameter.A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth al…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unrhymed, verse, iambic, pentameter.A verse which has a redundant syllable or foot; a hypercatalectic verse.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unrhymed, verse, iambic, pentameter.An iambus or iambic.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unrhymed, verse, iambic, pentameter.Pertaining to, or composed of, iambics; as, an iambic verse; iambic meter. See Lambus.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unrhymed, verse, iambic, pentameter.Iambic.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unrhymed, verse, iambic, pentameter.In a iambic manner; after the manner of iambics.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unrhymed, verse, iambic, pentameter.A foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, as in /mans, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one, a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unrhymed, verse, iambic, pentameter.A correspondence of sound in rhymes, especially when the verse has little merit; hence, the verse itself.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unrhymed, verse, iambic, pentameter.The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a foot; as, a poem in iambic m…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unrhymed, verse, iambic, pentameter.A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unrhymed, verse, iambic, pentameter.To preach by expounding Scripture verse by verse, in regular order.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unrhymed, verse, iambic, pentameter.One who postillates; one who expounds the Scriptures verse by verse.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unrhymed, verse, iambic, pentameter.
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