(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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a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry
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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.unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
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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A class of compounds analogous to vinic alcohol in constitution. Chemically speaking, they are hydroxides of certain organic radicals;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: brief, stanza, concluding, certain, forms.A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: brief, stanza, concluding, certain, forms.A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: brief, stanza, concluding, certain, forms.A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated "a die Incar…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: brief, stanza, concluding, certain, forms.The verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end of each stanza; the chorus; refrain. Hence: That which is often re…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: brief, stanza, concluding, certain, forms.a concluding action
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: brief, stanza, concluding, certain, forms.The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: brief, stanza, concluding, certain, forms.a concluding action
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: brief, stanza, concluding, certain, forms.a concluding action
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: brief, stanza, concluding, certain, forms.The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: brief, stanza, concluding, certain, forms.Termination; concluding part; result; conclusion; destruction; death.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: brief, stanza, concluding, certain, forms.a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: brief, stanza, concluding, certain, forms.One overattentive to forms, or too much confined to them; esp., one who rests in external religious forms, or observes strictly the ou…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: brief, stanza, concluding, certain, forms.Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, as a small pic…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: brief, stanza, concluding, certain, forms.A transitional sound in speech which is produced by the changing of the mouth organs from one definite position to another, and with g…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: brief, stanza, concluding, certain, forms.(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) undistinguished literary work produced to order.; "James Scully has observed that much of what is…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: brief, stanza, concluding, certain, forms.The latter or remaining part of anything; the closing or concluding part.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: brief, stanza, concluding, certain, forms.To insert among others, as a verse in a stanza; specif. (Geol.), to introduce as a bed or stratum, between the layers of a regular ser…
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