(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 stanza form having seven lines of iambic pentameter; introduced by Chaucer
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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 kind of verse, so called from Alcaeus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two d…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stanza, seven, lines, iambic, pentameter.a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stanza, seven, lines, iambic, pentameter.Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stanza, seven, lines, iambic, pentameter.One of the products arising from the multiplication of two or more quantities by the same number or quantity. Thus, seven times 2, or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stanza, seven, lines, iambic, pentameter.Consisting of two iambic dimeters catalectic, the last of which lacks the final syllable; -- said of a kind of verse.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stanza, seven, lines, iambic, pentameter.A system of close equidistant and parallel lines lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spect…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stanza, seven, lines, iambic, pentameter.Consisting of seven days, or occurring at intervals of seven days; weekly.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stanza, seven, lines, iambic, pentameter.An atom which has a valence of seven, and which can be theoretically combined with, substituted for, or replaced by, seven monad atoms…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stanza, seven, lines, iambic, pentameter.A plane figure consisting of seven sides and having seven angles.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stanza, seven, lines, iambic, pentameter.A government by seven persons; also, a country under seven rulers.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stanza, seven, lines, iambic, pentameter.a pattern of columns of short parallel lines with all the lines in one column sloping one way and lines in adjacent columns sloping th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stanza, seven, lines, iambic, pentameter.An iambus or iambic.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stanza, seven, lines, iambic, pentameter.Pertaining to, or composed of, iambics; as, an iambic verse; iambic meter. See Lambus.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stanza, seven, lines, iambic, pentameter.Iambic.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stanza, seven, lines, iambic, pentameter.In a iambic manner; after the manner of iambics.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stanza, seven, lines, iambic, pentameter.A foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, as in /mans, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one, a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stanza, seven, lines, iambic, pentameter.A family of tones whose regular members are called diatonic tones, and named key tone (or tonic) or one (or eight), mediant or three,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stanza, seven, lines, iambic, pentameter.The first two stanzas of a sonnet, consisting of four verses each; a stanza of eight lines.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stanza, seven, lines, iambic, pentameter.
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