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| a method of graphing the stresses of a line of poetry, using È (or x) and ? (or ') for unstressed and stressed accents, or musical notes to indicate degrees of stress and length |
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| the study of rhythm in poetry, prose, or dialogue |
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| 4-stress lines halved by a caesura, in which 3 of the 4 stresses alliterate |
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| verse in which only stresses are counted |
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| verse in which only the number of syllables is counted, lumping stressed in with unstressed syllables |
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| verse in which the number of stresses, and the total number of syllables, are both counted; the most common form of English verse |
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| substitution of one foot with another |
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| pronouncing two syllables as one by dropping an unstressed vowel |
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| drop final unstressed syllable(s) of a line ending with a trochee or dactyl |
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| 7 feet, 14 syllables (fourteeners) |
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| ending with a natural pause indicated by the syntax and confirmed by the sense of the line |
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| a line in which the sense continues on to the next line without a natural syntactical pause, establishing a strong grammatical pull between lines (enjambment) |
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| a pause in the middle of a line |
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| repeated line, usually at the end of a stanza |
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| a line ending with an unstressed syllable |
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| triplet (if rhymed) or tercet |
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| like end-stopped or enjambed lines, but at the stanza break |
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| verse without discrete stanzas |
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| verse paragraph (strophe) |
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half - or off - or near - or slant rhyme
feminine (double-syllabic) and triple rhymes |
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| "rhyming" words that look alike but do not have full rhyme |
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| repeating consonant sounds |
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| repeating initial and concluding consonant sounds |
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| a word or phrase that sounds like what it describes |
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| unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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| closed iambic pentameter couplets |
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| quatrain of iambic tetrameter, trimeter, tetrameter, trimeter, rhyming abcb or abab |
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