adj
(prosody) Deficient in the beginning, as a line of poetry that is missing its expected opening syllable.
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A poem in Hebrew in which successive lines or verses start with consecutive letters of the alphabet.
adj
Describing a form of prosody featuring alternating responses.
adj
Obsolete form of anapestic. [of, or relating to, or composed of an anapest.]
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(poetry) A verse that is two syllables short.
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(obsolete) A line of ten syllables.
adj
(linguistics) Consisting of two trochees.
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A poem whose stanzas, except the first two, are clues for words. The initial letters of these words, in order, form a word clued by the first stanza; the final letters, the second stanza.
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Alternative form of enjambment [A technique in poetry whereby a sentence is carried over to the next line without pause.]
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(prosody) A caesura following an unstressed syllable.
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(chiefly prosody) A line, verse, or word that comprises eleven syllables.
adj
(of poetry) Having variable meter
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hexametric; consisting of six metrical feet
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(poetry) The addition of one or two syllables to the last foot of a verse
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A period with a redundant syllable.
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(prosody) A word of multiple syllables, such as "power", when presented (e.g. in poetry) as having only one syllable.
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(poetry) of a syllable in verse, carrying the beat.
adj
Within a single stanza.
adj
(poetry, literature) Arranged so that two similar words, lines, etc. form the middle of the structure.
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Alternative form of lekythion [(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.]
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In Indian poetics and linguistics, a measure of the length of a syllable; equivalent to mora.
n
One who studies poetic meter.
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(prosody) Containing only one kind of metrical foot.
adj
(poetry) Having a single metrical foot.
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A metrical composition having a single strophe
adj
(poetry, phonology) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of a mora or morae (a unit of syllable weight in poetry and linguistics).
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The use of octosyllabic lines in poetry.
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(poetry) line of verse with eight syllables
adj
(poetry) Of or relating to paeons.
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(by extension) A poetic form in which the sequence of words reads the same in either direction.
adv
Pertaining to the rhythm of a poem, especially as concerns the stress given to syllables.
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Relating to or exhibiting pentameter.
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A poem or stanza consisting of fourteen lines.
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Alternative form of rhyme royal [(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).]
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(rare, prosody, of a rhyme) Formed of words stressed on their antepenults and rhyming on all three final syllables.
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(rare) Synonym of hexameter
adj
Of or pertaining to stanzas.
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(poetry) A technique in drama or poetry, in which alternating lines, or half-lines, are given to alternating characters, voices, or entities.
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Obsolete form of tribrach. [(prosody) A metrical foot consisting of three short syllables.]
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Of or relating to a trimeter or anything related to trimeters.
n
A poem whose stanzas, except the first three, are clues for words. The initial letters of these words, in order, form a word clued by the first stanza; the middle letters, the second stanza; and the final letters, the third stanza.
adj
(prosody) Consisting of three morae.
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