(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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an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines
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The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as i…
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 or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.
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.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.To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn.
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Poetry.A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; esp., now, a poem characterized by sustained noble senti…
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Poetry.A number of lines or verses forming a division of a song or poem, and agreeing in meter, rhyme, number of lines, etc., with other divi…
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: epigrammatic, japanese, verse, three, short.A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: epigrammatic, japanese, verse, three, short.One of a peculiar race inhabiting Yesso, the Kooril Islands etc., in the northern part of the empire of Japan, by some supposed to hav…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: epigrammatic, japanese, verse, three, short.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: epigrammatic, japanese, verse, three, short.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: epigrammatic, japanese, verse, three, short.Two taken together; a pair or couple; especially two lines of verse that rhyme with each other.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: epigrammatic, japanese, verse, three, short.To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: epigrammatic, japanese, verse, three, short.Writing epigrams; dealing in epigrams; as, an epigrammatical poet.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: epigrammatic, japanese, verse, three, short.In the way of epigram; in an epigrammatic style.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: epigrammatic, japanese, verse, three, short.of Grate
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: epigrammatic, japanese, verse, three, short.Half a poetic verse or line, or a verse or line not completed.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: epigrammatic, japanese, verse, three, short.Pertaining to, or like, the spine of a herring; especially, characterized by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: epigrammatic, japanese, verse, three, short.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: epigrammatic, japanese, verse, three, short.A verse which has a redundant syllable or foot; a hypercatalectic verse.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: epigrammatic, japanese, verse, three, short.An island; -- often used in the names of small islands off the coast of Scotland, as in Inchcolm, Inchkeith, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: epigrammatic, japanese, verse, three, short.To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: epigrammatic, japanese, verse, three, short.Expressing much in few words, after the manner of the Laconians or Spartans; brief and pithy; brusque; epigrammatic. In this sense lac…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: epigrammatic, japanese, verse, three, short.a stanza of eight lines of heroic verse with the rhyme scheme abababcc
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: epigrammatic, japanese, verse, three, short.
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