(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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Initial rhyme
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 ragged rascal ran’"
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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.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.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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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,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consonant, beginning, stressed, syllable, line.A prefix of one or two unaccented syllables to a verse properly beginning with an accented syllable.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consonant, beginning, stressed, syllable, line.To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consonant, beginning, stressed, syllable, line.Having a resemblance of sounds.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consonant, beginning, stressed, syllable, line.To mention in rhyme or verse; to rhyme about.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consonant, beginning, stressed, syllable, line.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: consonant, beginning, stressed, syllable, line.a syllable that ends with a consonant.; "The vowel in a closed syllable is short."
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consonant, beginning, stressed, syllable, line.Having agreement; congruous; consistent; according; -- usually followed by with or to.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consonant, beginning, stressed, syllable, line.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: consonant, beginning, stressed, syllable, line.Division; separation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consonant, beginning, stressed, syllable, line.Same as Eisel. F () F is the sixth letter of the English alphabet, and a nonvocal consonant. Its form and sound are from the Latin. Th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consonant, beginning, stressed, syllable, line.The glede or kite.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consonant, beginning, stressed, syllable, line.a syllable with a branching nucleus or a branching rime.; "A heavy syllable consists of a long vowel or a diphthong, or a short vowel…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consonant, beginning, stressed, syllable, line.Half a poetic verse or line, or a verse or line not completed.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consonant, beginning, stressed, syllable, line.A verse which has a redundant syllable or foot; a hypercatalectic verse.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consonant, beginning, stressed, syllable, line.Beginning; expressing or indicating beginning; as, an inceptive proposition; an inceptive verb, which expresses the beginning of actio…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consonant, beginning, stressed, syllable, line.The act of indenting or state of being indented.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consonant, beginning, stressed, syllable, line.Of or pertaining to the beginning; marking the commencement; incipient; commencing; as, the initial symptoms of a disease.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consonant, beginning, stressed, syllable, line.
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