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- Couplet
- A pair of verses.
- Feet
- Combinations of two or more syllables arranged according to the properties of each syllable.
- Female rhymes
- The similarity in sound between the last two syllables of a word or verse.3
- Hexameter
- A verse of six feet.
- Iamb
- A type of foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. Examples include “aloft“, “beyond” and “remain“.
- Male rhymes
- The similarity in sound between only the last syllables of a word or verse.3
- Meter
- The structure of stressed and unstressed syllables in a verse.
- Pentameter
- A verse of five feet.
- Poetry
- A class of literary works that employ versification, adherence to a metrical form, or certain other devices associated with poetry.
- Quatrain
- A stanza of four lines.
- Scanning
- A process used to determine the meter of a verse.
- Stanza
- Combination of several lines constituting the regular division of a poem.2
- Tercet
- A stanza of three lines.
- Tetrameter
- A verse of four feet.
- Versification
- The arrangement of a certain number and variety of syllables, or words according to certain laws of measure and quantity.1
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