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meter (second definition) the arrangement of words in a poem based on the relative stress of their syllables scansion the process of counting the number of stressed and unstressed syllables and analyzing their patterns foot the basic metrical unit in poetry iamb (iambic) _/ trochee (trochaic) /_ anapest (anapestic) __/ dactyl (dactylic) /__ spondee (spondaic) // pyrrhic (pyrrhic) __ monometer one foot dimeter two feet trimeter three feet tetrameter four feet pentameter five feet hexameter

six feet heptameter seven feet octameter eight feet prosody the study of metrical structure end rhyme "the agreement of two metrically accented syllables and their terminal consonants" (defined by Mary Kinzie) connotations the meanings a word suggests rather than specifically names or describes single (masculine) rhyme perfect rhymes perfect rhymes the correspondence between the two rhyme sounds is exact falling (feminine) (weak) rhyme the rhyme is a stressed syllable followed by one or more unstressed syllables Triple rhyme have three of the same syllables polysyllabic rhyme rhymes of more than one syllable double rhyme a rhyme with two rhyming syllables light verse poetry, usually rhymed, that treats its subject in a comic or good-natured manner slant rhymes the vowel sounds may be either similar or significantly dissimilar, and the rhymed consonants maybe similar rather than identical. sight (eye) rhymes

words that look as if they should rhyme, even though they don't when we say them aloud...