adj
(poetry, prosody) Designating a line of verse having the required number of syllables in the last foot
adj
(prosody) Deficient in the beginning, as a line of poetry that is missing its expected opening syllable.
adj
(meter, verse) having a dactyl followed by either a spondee or a trochee.
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(poetry) A Greek meter, supposedly invented by Alcaeus, consisting of combinations of spondee, iambs and dactyls.
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(poetry) A line of poetic meter having twelve syllables, usually divided into two or three equal parts.
n
(poetry) A poem in which persons are represented as speaking alternately.
adj
Consisting of amphibrachs, metrical feet consisting of either a long syllable between two that are short, or an accented syllable between two that are not accented.
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A metrical foot consisting of an unaccented syllable between two accented syllables; a cretic
n
(UK) Alternative form of anapest [(prosody) In qualitative metre, a metrical foot consisting of three syllables, two unstressed and one stressed (e.g., the word "interrupt").]
n
Alternative spelling of anapestic [A verse that contains anapestic feet]
n
A verse that contains anapestic feet
n
Obsolete form of anapestic. [A verse that contains anapestic feet]
n
(poetry, Greek and Latin meter) A syllable that can be either short or long.
n
(poetry) A rare metrical foot consisting of two accented syllables followed by one unaccented syllable.
n
(prosody) A metrical foot composed of an iambus and a trochee
adj
Of or relating to antistrophe (in Greek choruses and dances).
adj
(poetry) Of the part of the metrical foot upon which such an elevation falls.
n
Raising of the voice in prosody, accented part of a metrical foot
n
(poetry) A choriambic verse consisting of four metrical feet: a spondee, two choriambi, and an iambus.
adj
(prosody) In the form of Asclepiads.
adj
(prosody) In the form of Asclepiads.
adj
Being or relating to a verse of two members, having different rhythms, as for example when the first consists of iambuses and the second of trochees.
n
(prosody) A metrical foot composed of a short syllable and two long ones; according to some, two long and a short.
n
(prosody) A point in a metrical pattern that can be filled either with one long syllable (a longum) or two short syllables (two brevia)
n
A pair of adjacent lines of poetry in which the second echoes the meaning of the first
n
(poetry) A meter wherein each line has two metrical feet.
n
(poetry) A six-line poem whose rhyme scheme is ABbaBA.
n
A short line ending a stanza of a poem.
n
(poetry, Greek and Latin meter) The situation where a short syllable at the end of a line can be counted as long.
n
(Classical prosody) Using two words to divide a metrical foot.
n
(poetry) A line with incomplete meter, lacking a syllable at the end or ending with an incomplete foot.
n
A shortened or incomplete last foot at the end of a verse.
n
(poetry) A word or phrase whose only function is to make a sentence metrically balanced.
n
(poetry) A limping iamb.
adj
(poetry) Employing or relating to choliambs, or limping iambs.
n
One who writes in choliambic meter.
n
a choreus, trochee (a foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short)
n
(poetry) A metrical foot consisting of four syllables, of which the first and last are long, and the others short; a choreus, or trochee, united with an iambus.
n
(education) A five-line poetic form set as a writing exercise for children, consisting of one noun, two adjectives, three actions, four feeling words, and the initial noun again.
n
A humorous rhyme of four lines with the rhyming scheme AABB, usually regarding a person mentioned in the first line.
n
(hymnody) A hymn metre characterized by a quatrain of alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter.
n
(literature) A pair of lines, typically with rhyming end words.
adj
Using or relating to a metrical pattern of poetry where each foot is composed of three syllables, the first and third of which are stressed and the second is unstressed. This pattern is very rare in English poetry.
n
(prosody) The complex system of internal assonance, alliteration and rhyme in Welsh strict-meter poetry.
n
Obsolete form of dactyl. [A metrical foot of three syllables (— ⏑ ⏑), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented.]
adj
(poetry) Pertaining to dactyl; dactylic.
adj
(prosody) of or consisting of dactyls.
n
Synonym of dactyl (“type of metrical foot”)
n
(prosody) A line in a poem having ten metrical feet.
n
(poetry) A 10-line verse or stanza, (chiefly) in the form of a song comprising an introductory verse followed by four such divisions.
n
(prosody) A natural break in rhythm when a word ends at the end of a metrical foot, in a line of verse.
n
(poetry) Alternative form of diiamb [(poetry) A diiambus.]
adj
(poetry) Alternative form of diiambic [(poetry) In or relating to the diiambus meter.]
adj
(poetry) doubly catalectic, at both the middle and the end of the verse
adj
(poetry) In or relating to the diiambus meter.
n
(poetry) A double iambus; a metrical foot consisting of two iambs.
n
(poetry) A poetic metre in which each line has two feet.
adj
(poetry) exhibiting dimeter
adj
(poetry) Consisting of two metrical feet.
n
A double spondee; a metrical foot consisting of four long syllables.
n
(prosody) A couplet, a two-line stanza making complete sense.
adj
(poetry) In the form of a distich.
adj
(poetry) Containing two trochees.
n
(poetry) A double trochee; a metrical foot made up of two trochees.
n
(poetry) A verse in dochmiac metre.
n
(poetry) A metrical foot of five syllables used in Greek tragedy for highly anguished scenes. The metrical pattern is typically: short-long-long-short-long.
n
(poetry) A complex line that consists of twelve metric feet.
n
A short, usually humorous poem with eight lines in dactylic meter; a higgledy-piggledy.
n
Alternative form of double dactyl [A short, usually humorous poem with eight lines in dactylic meter; a higgledy-piggledy.]
n
A division of a poem corresponding to a canto.
adj
(poetry) Having two beats in each foot.
n
(poetry) A poetic metre of six dactylic feet, the third and sixth with the first member only.
n
An eleven-word poem, successive lines containing one, two, three, four and one words.
n
A technique in poetry whereby a sentence is carried over to the next line without pause.
n
(poetry, Ancient Greek and Latin prosody) A metrical foot consisting of three long syllables and one short syllable.
adj
Describing a French form of blank verse that has alternating masculine and feminine endings
n
(neologism) A kind of experimental poem where the number of syllables in each line is the next succeeding Fibonacci number.
n
(prosody) The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.
n
(poetry) A (usually iambic) line of fourteen syllables.
adj
(poetry) Relating to a galliambus.
n
(poetry) A verse consisting of four Ionics a minore, with variations and substitutions.
n
(historical, rare) A unit of measure used in the 16th century, defined as "five feet" or "five geometrical feet".
n
(poetry) A kind of verse in Ancient Greek and Latin poetry, consisting of a spondee, a choriambus, and a pyrrhic.
n
(prosody) Half of a metrical foot
n
An unfinished line of verse
n
(poetry, rare) A line of verse containing eleven metrical feet.
n
(prosody) A group of seven half feet
n
a line or verse containing seven metrical feet
n
(poetry) A measure or series consisting of seven feet.
n
(ancient prosody, rare) a line of poetry containing seven morae or units of time.
adj
(ancient prosody) containing seven morae or units of time.
n
(poetry) A composition consisting of seven lines or verses.
n
A rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter, used in epic poetry.
n
(uncountable) A poetic metre in which each line has six feet.
n
Alternative form of hexameter [(countable) A line in a poem having six metrical feet.]
n
One who writes in hexameter.
n
(poetry, countable) Six metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure.
n
A poem consisting of six verses or lines.
n
A double-dactyl; a short poem with eight lines in dactylic meter.
n
A French poem, a kind of octastich.
n
A hypercatalectic line, i.e. with two syllables beyond the metrum.
n
(prosody) A verse consisting of an iambic dimeter and half an elegiac pentameter.
adj
(prosody) Consisting of iambs (metrical feet with an unstressed-stressed pattern) or characterized by their predominance. [from 16th c.]
n
A poetic meter consisting of a line with five feet in each of which the iamb is dominant.
n
A poetic meter consisting of a line with four feet in each of which the iamb is dominant.
adj
Obsolete form of iambic. [(prosody) Consisting of iambs (metrical feet with an unstressed-stressed pattern) or characterized by their predominance. [from 16th c.]]
adv
According to iambic meter.
adj
Obsolete form of iambic. [(prosody) Consisting of iambs (metrical feet with an unstressed-stressed pattern) or characterized by their predominance. [from 16th c.]]
n
One who writes in iambic meter.
adj
Of or pertaining to Iamblichus.
n
A poet who writes iambic verse.
n
(poetry) A four-syllable metrical unit of light-light-heavy-heavy (‿ ‿ — —) that occurs in Ancient Greek and Latin poetry.
adj
(poetry) Pertaining to a metrical combination of two trochees followed by one spondee.
n
Obsolete form of iambus. [(prosody) iamb]
n
A traditional Afghan poetic form consisting of a single couplet, with nine syllables in the first line and thirteen in the second.
n
(poetry) In classical Greek and Latin poetry, a metric pattern defined by a sequence of seven alternating long and short syllables at the end of a verse.
n
(poetry) A kind of Latin verse, generally alternate hexameter and pentameter, rhyming at the middle and end.
n
A verse form based on internal rhyme, commonly used in Latin verse of the European Middle Ages.
n
A humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapaestic lines, with the rhyme scheme aabba, and typically having an 8–8–5–5–8 cadence.
n
An iambic verse in which the last foot is a spondee or trochee instead of an iambus
adj
(of verse) Having dactyls mixed with trochees
adj
(poetry) Of a meter between song and common speech, typically having two dactyls followed by two trochees.
n
(hymnody) A hymn metre characterized by a quatrain of iambic tetrameter, usually having rhyme in the second and fourth lines.
n
(poetry) The last couplet of a ghazal, typically incorporating the poet's pen name in a creative way.
adj
(of poetry etc.) Rhythmically written in meter; metrical.
v
(poetry, music) To put into metrical form.
adv
(poetry) for the sake of the meter.
adj
relating to poetic meter
n
The basic unit of the underlying rhythm of verse
n
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem.
n
The study of metrical verse.
n
A composition in metrical form; a versification.
n
(literature, Ancient Greece, rare) A short humorous dramatic scene in verse.
n
A work consisting of mimiambs.
n
(poetry) A dactylic hexameter with short penultimate syllable.
n
(poetry) A metrical foot of three long syllables.
n
(poetry) A line of verse containing a single metrical foot.
n
(poetry) A measure of a single metrical foot.
n
(poetry) A unit used to measure lines and stanzas of poetry.
n
(now rare, in the plural) Poetic metres; verses, rhymes.
n
A line of verse containing eight metrical feet
n
(prosody) A metre or verse of eight feet.
n
A poem or strophe of eight verses or lines.
n
(poetry) A poetic stanza consisting of eight lines; usually used as one part of a sonnet.
adj
(prosody) Composed of eight metrical feet
n
A verse having eight metrical feet.
n
Alternative form of Octoechos [(Christianity) A liturgical book containing a repertoire of hymns ordered in eight parts according to the eight echoi (tones or modes), used in many rites of Eastern Christianity.]
n
(poetry) An arrangement of stanzas of eight lines in heroic verse, with three rhymes, the first six lines rhyming alternately and the last two forming a couplet (ab ab ab cc).
n
Alternative form of ottava rima [(poetry) An arrangement of stanzas of eight lines in heroic verse, with three rhymes, the first six lines rhyming alternately and the last two forming a couplet (ab ab ab cc).]
n
(Sanskrit prosody) The basic metric unit of Vedic poetry, consisting of one line of verse in Sanskrit, typically as part of a four-line stanza.
n
(poetry) A foot containing any pattern of three short syllables and one long syllable.
n
A metrical foot composed of two long syllables and one short one
n
A poem, similar to a villanelle, that comprises a series of quatrains, the second and fourth lines of each stanza repeated as the first and third lines of the next.
n
A poetical composition, in which the first verse contains, in order, the first letters of all the verses of the poem.
n
(poetry) A ridiculously restrictive poetic form consisting of four sestets that must repeat lines and reuse all previous words according to a fixed pattern.
n
A catalectic anapestic dimeter.
adj
anapestic trimeter hypercatalectic
n
A variant of amphibrach that has five short syllables
n
A set of verses arranged so that the name of the subject occurs five times, the whole set of verses being divided into five different parts from top to bottom.
n
(poetry) Poetic metre in which each line has five feet.
n
Alternative form of pentameter [(poetry) A line in a poem having five metrical feet.]
n
(poetry) A measure or series consisting of five feet.
adj
Having five stresses on each line of verse
n
(poetry) A composition consisting of five verses.
n
(prosody) A metrical unit equal to half of a pentameter
adj
(prosody) Relating to a penthemimer
n
(poetry) A prosal group of two and a half feet.
n
(poetry) A fixed verse form consisting of five stanzas of five lines each, normally followed by a two-line envoi.
n
(poetry) A sonnet comprising an octet and a closing sestet, following the rhyme scheme of either abba abba cde cde or abba abba cd cd cd or abba abba cce dde or abba abba cdd cee.
n
(music) Alternative form of polymetre [(music) The use of different metres or time signatures either simultaneously or in succession]
n
(poetry) A metre with alternate lines of 12 and 14 syllables.
n
(poetry) A kind of hexameter verse so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three metrical feet each, generally having a trochee in the first and fourth feet and an amphimacer in the third; applied also to a regular hexameter verse when so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each.
adj
(poetry, not comparable) Consisting of four short syllables; composed of metrical feet of four short syllables each.
adj
Consisting both of prose and verse.
adj
(prosody) Of or characterized by pyrrhics (metrical feet with two short syllables).
adj
Describing Pythian verse that has an iambic form
n
(prosody) dactylic hexameter
n
(prosody) A unit of four metrical feet.
n
(poetry) A piece of verse having fifteen syllables.
n
(uncountable) A rule in Persian, Turkic, and Urdu ghazal poetry, according to which the second line of every couplet must end with the same word or words.
n
(poetry) In later Spanish use, a verse of six and eight syllables in general, whether making perfect rhymes or assonances only.
n
A type of Welsh verse composed of four four-syllable sections in which the first three sections rhyme with each other and the fourth section rhymes with the fourth section of the next verse.
n
A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.
n
(uncountable, poetry) A form of English verse consisting of seven-line stanzas of iambic pentameter having a rhyme scheme of ababbcc, first represented in English in works by Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400).
n
(literature) Two successive rhyming lines of verse, usually of the same length.
adj
Written in verse, especially rhyming verse.
n
(poetry) A fixed form of verse based on two rhyme sounds and consisting usually of 13 lines in three stanzas with the opening words of the first line of the first stanza used as an independent refrain after the second and third stanzas.
n
A metric form of verse using two rhymes, usually fourteen 8- to 10-syllable lines in three stanzas, with the first lines of the first stanza returning as refrain of the next two.
n
A metric verse (form), modeled after the rondeau, in two rhymes over seven lines, the first (in four syllables) being repeated as third and refrain (final one), each other line having eight syllables
n
An ancient form of unrhymed Old Irish verse that uses alliteration and meter.
adj
(poetry) Of a certain kind of verse reputed to have been invented by Sappho, consisting of five metrical feet, of which the first, fourth, and fifth are trochees, the second is a spondee, and the third a dactyl.
adj
(poetry) Involving a meter consisting of three iambics and an extra syllable followed by three trochees, employed by satirists in Ancient Rome.
n
The act of analysing the meter of poetry.
n
A iambic trimeter ending with a trochee or spondee.
n
(poetry) Half of a metrical foot.
n
(poetry) A verse having six metric feet.
n
Alternative spelling of senryū [(poetry) A haiku-like poem of up to 17 syllables that is usually humorous or satirical.]
n
(prosody) A verse having seven metrical feet.
n
(poetry) A set of seven lines.
n
(poetry) The last six lines of a sonnet, forming two stanzas of three lines each.
n
(poetry) A highly structured poem consisting of six six-line stanzas followed by a tercet or envoy, for a total of thirty-nine lines.
n
A poem consisting of seven lines, split into three stanzas.
n
A distich of Sanskrit verse, in which each line contains sixteen syllables.
n
(hymnody) A hymn metre characterized by a quatrain of iambic lines, of which the first, second, and fourth are in trimeter, and the third in tetrameter.
n
A classical Korean poetry form consisting of twelve accentual phrases divided in three lines.
n
(music) meter with two subdivisions for every pulse
n
Alternative form of shloka [A distich of Sanskrit verse, in which each line contains sixteen syllables.]
n
(poetry, Hinduism) A Sanskrit meter consisting of two lines of sixteen syllables each.
n
(poetry) A sonnet comprising three quatrains with the latter rhyme part being carried over from one quatrain to the next, and a concluding couplet, therefore comprising a rhyme scheme of abab bcbc cdcd ee.
n
(poetry) A strophe of eight decasyllabic lines and an alexandrine, having three rhymes: the first and third; the second, fourth, fifth, and seventh; and the sixth, eighth, and ninth.
adj
(poetry) Having or relating to spondees.
adj
(poetry) Having or relating to spondees.
n
(prosody) A Scottish verse form with six-line stanzas rhyming AAABAB, with tetrameter A lines and dimeter B lines.
n
A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse.
n
(archaic) A verse; a stanza.
n
(poetry) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
v
To exhibit this kind of rhyme.
n
A part of a line of poetry, especially in the distichal poetry of the Hebrew Bible and in early Germanic heroic verse such as Beowulf, where the line is composed of two (occasionally three) such parts.
adj
Describing verse that is not divided into stanzas, but consists of lines all having the same metrical form
n
(prosody) A turn in verse, as from one metrical foot to another, or from one side of a chorus to the other.
adj
(prosody) Using or containing strophes.
n
A form of Japanese verse in five lines of 5, 7, 5, 7, and 7 morae.
n
a three-line stanza in a poem
n
(poetry) An arrangement of triplets, generally in iambic pentameter in English, with rhyme scheme aba bcb cdc.
n
(poetry) A poetry form which is a combination of the villanelle and the terza rima.
n
(poetry) A stanza or division in lyric poetry, consisting of four verses or lines.
n
(prosody) A poetic metre in which each line has four feet.
n
Alternative form of tetrameter [(poetry) A line in a poem having four metrical feet.]
n
A set of four metrical feet.
adj
(prosody) Equivalent to four short syllables, as a dactyl, anapest, or spondee.
n
(prosody) A four-line stanza.
n
(poetry) A triplet; three lines, or three lines rhyming together.
n
(prosody) A metrical foot consisting of three short syllables.
n
Alternative form of tribrach [(prosody) A metrical foot consisting of three short syllables.]
n
Alternative form of tribrach [(prosody) A metrical foot consisting of three short syllables.]
n
a poetic metre in which each line has three feet.
n
Alternative form of trimeter [A line in a poem having three metrical feet.]
n
(poetry) An eight-line poem whose rhyme scheme is ABaAabAB and whose lines are in iambic tetrameter.
adj
(poetry) Having three metrical feet.
n
(poetry) Three metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure.
n
Abbreviation of trochee. [A metrical foot in verse consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.]
adj
Composed of or relating to trochees, feet of one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.
adj
Alternative form of trochaic [Composed of or relating to trochees, feet of one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.]
adj
Obsolete form of trochaic. [Composed of or relating to trochees, feet of one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.]
n
A metrical foot in verse consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.
n
A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music.
n
(poetry) A type of poem, consisting of five tercets and one quatrain, with only two rhymes.
adj
Rare spelling of iambic. [(prosody) Consisting of iambs (metrical feet with an unstressed-stressed pattern) or characterized by their predominance. [from 16th c.]]
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