(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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Spenserian stanza
a stanza with eight lines of iambic pentameter and a concluding Alexandrine with the rhyme pattern abab bcbc c; "the Spenserian stanza was introduced by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene"
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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, eight, lines, iambic, pentameter.Applied to a kind of heroic verse. See Alexandrine, n.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stanza, eight, lines, iambic, pentameter.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: stanza, eight, lines, iambic, pentameter.To mention in rhyme or verse; to rhyme about.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stanza, eight, lines, iambic, pentameter.The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stanza, eight, lines, iambic, pentameter.a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stanza, eight, lines, iambic, pentameter.The quotient of a unit divided by eight; one of eight equal parts; an eighth part.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stanza, eight, 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, eight, lines, iambic, pentameter.The act or art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like; especially, the art of pro…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stanza, eight, lines, iambic, pentameter.a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stanza, eight, lines, iambic, pentameter.a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stanza, eight, 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, eight, 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, eight, 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, eight, 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, eight, lines, iambic, pentameter.A nautical mile, or 6080.27 feet; as, when a ship goes eight miles an hour, her speed is said to be eight knots.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stanza, eight, lines, iambic, pentameter.A composition in verse, in which all the lines end with the same rhyme.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stanza, eight, lines, iambic, pentameter.Following the eight and preceding the tenth; coming after eight others.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stanza, eight, lines, iambic, pentameter.
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