(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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unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
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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.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…
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() Specifically (Pros.), to go through with, as a verse, marking and distinguishing the feet of which it is composed; to show, in read…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unrhymed, verse, consistent, metrical, pattern.Having each verse begin with the same letter as that with which the preceding verse ends.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unrhymed, verse, consistent, metrical, pattern.of Beat
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unrhymed, verse, consistent, metrical, pattern.The act or state of declining or sinking.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unrhymed, verse, consistent, metrical, pattern.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: unrhymed, verse, consistent, metrical, pattern.The terminal part of the leg of man or an animal; esp., the part below the ankle or wrist; that part of an animal upon which it rests…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unrhymed, verse, consistent, metrical, pattern.A term used for lace of different kinds; most properly for a lace of large pattern and heavy material which has no ground or mesh, but…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unrhymed, verse, consistent, metrical, pattern.Half a poetic verse or line, or a verse or line not completed.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unrhymed, verse, consistent, metrical, pattern.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: unrhymed, verse, consistent, metrical, pattern.A verse which has a redundant syllable or foot; a hypercatalectic verse.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unrhymed, verse, consistent, metrical, pattern.The insertion of a day, or other portion of time, in a calendar.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unrhymed, verse, consistent, metrical, pattern.To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unrhymed, verse, consistent, metrical, pattern.A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unrhymed, verse, consistent, metrical, pattern.One who, or that which, metes or measures. See Coal-meter.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unrhymed, verse, consistent, metrical, pattern.Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on number, quantity, an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unrhymed, verse, consistent, metrical, pattern.A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unrhymed, verse, consistent, metrical, pattern.A companion; a match; an equal.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unrhymed, verse, consistent, metrical, pattern.A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unrhymed, verse, consistent, metrical, pattern.
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