Female rhymes: alternatives and connections

Capable of being accented.

One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note.

The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also,…

A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (~ -- ~); as, h/b/r/. In modern prosody the accented syllable…

A prefix of one or two unaccented syllables to a verse properly beginning with an accented syllable.

A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented (/ / -); the reverse of…

The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; -- the result of a phonetic process; as, squire for esquire.

The elevation of the hand, or that part of the bar at which it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar; --…

Unaccented; as, an atonic syllable.

A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or t…

a word that is treated in pronunciation as forming a part of a neighboring word and that is often unaccented or contracted.; "Most lan…

A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tegm/n/…

A double spondee; a foot consisting of four long syllables.

Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes.

A combination of syllables consisting a metrical element of a verse, the syllables being formerly distinguished by their quantity or l…

A mode of speech peculiar to the French; a French idiom; also, in general, a French mode or custom.

A mark or short dash, thus [-], placed at the end of a line which terminates with a syllable of a word, the remainder of which is carr…

Consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented; as, an iambic foot.