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Iambic

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

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Verse 76% connected

A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet (see Foot, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules.

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Iamb 66% connected

An iambus or iambic.

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Accent noun · 78% connection

the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syl…

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Amphibrach noun · 78% connection

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

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Anacrusis noun · 78% connection

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

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Anapest noun · 78% connection

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

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Aphesis noun · 78% connection

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

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Atonic adjective · 78% connection

Unaccented; as, an atonic syllable.

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Bacchius noun · 78% connection

A metrical foot composed of a short syllable and two long ones; according to some, two long and a short.

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Caesura noun · 78% connection

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…

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Choriambus noun · 78% connection

A foot consisting of four syllables, of which the first and last are long, and the other short (- ~ ~ -); that is, a choreus, or troch…

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Circumflex noun · 78% connection

A character, or accent, denoting in Greek a rise and of the voice on the same long syllable, marked thus [~ or /]; and in Latin and so…

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Closed syllable noun · 78% connection

a syllable that ends with a consonant.; "The vowel in a closed syllable is short."

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Compare verb · 78% connection

To inflect according to the degrees of comparison; to state positive, comparative, and superlative forms of; as, most adjectives of on…

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Cretic noun · 78% connection

A poetic foot, composed of one short syllable between two long ones (- / -).

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Dactyl noun · 78% connection

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

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Diastole noun · 78% connection

A figure by which a syllable naturally short is made long.

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Emphasis noun · 78% connection

the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syl…

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Epitrite noun · 78% connection

A foot consisting of three long syllables and one short syllable.

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Female rhymes unknown · 78% connection

double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accente…

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