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| the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. |
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| A foot is a unit of measure. It generally consists of one stressed and one unstressed syllables. |
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| a two syllable foot with stress on the second syllable. |
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| consists of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. |
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| consists of three syllables with stress on the last syllable. |
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| consists of two stressed syllables. |
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| contains three syllables with stress on the first syllable. |
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| consists of two unstressed syllables. |
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one foot line
Thus I
Pass by
And die,
As one,
Unknown
And gone |
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a two foot line
Workers earn it,
Spendthrifts burn it
Bankers lend it,
Women spend it,
Forgers fake it,
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I could use it.
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a three foot line
The idle life I lead
Is like a pleasant sleep,
Wherein I rest and head
The dreams that by me sweep.
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a four foot line
The hills, the meadows, and the lakes,
Enchant not for their own sweet sakes.
They cannot know, they cannot care
To know that they are thought so fair.
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a five foot line
What oft was thought, but ne’er so well express’d.
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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a six foot line
If hunger, proverbs say, allures the wolf from wood,
Much more the bird must dare a dash at something good.
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seven foot line
It looked extremely rocky for the Mudville nine that day,
The score stood four to six with but an inning left to play |
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an eight foot line
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
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| Rhymed verse consists of verse with end rhyme and usually with a regular meter |
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Blank verse consists of lines of iambic pentameter without end rhyme. |
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Free verse consists of lines that do not have a regular meter and do not contain rhyme. |
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the similarity of likeness of sound existing between two words. A true rhyme should consist of identical sounding syllables that are stressed and the letters preceding the vowels sounds should be different. |
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| A rhyme based on an imperfect or incomplete correspondence of end syllable sounds. |
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| consists of the similarity occurring at the end of two or more lines of verse |
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consists of the similarity occurring between two or more words in the same line of
verse. |
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occurs when one syllable of a word rhymes with another word:
bend and send; bright and light
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occurs when the last two syllables of a word rhyme with another word:
lawful and awful; lighting and fighting
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occurs when the last three syllables of a word or line rhyme:
victorious and glorious; ascendency and descendency; quivering and shivering; battering and
shattering |
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