Term
|
Definition
| v / ;"One day I wrote her name upon the strand" (Spenser) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| / v ; "Trochees simply tumble on" "Jack be nimble, Jack be quick" |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| / / ; "Thou hast bound bones...." (Hopkins) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| v v / ; "And the sheen of their spears was like stars...." (Byron) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| / v v ; "This is the forest primeval. The murmuring...." (Longfellow) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| iambic hexameter, or any hexameter: ("A needless alexandrine ends the song/that like a wooden snake, drags its slow length along." - Pope) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Seven-beat lines, generally iambic |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| unrhymed iambic pentametere (Paradise Lost) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A line that is lacking one syllable at the end |
|
|
