A line consisting of six main stresses (often five dactyls and a spondee)
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Trimeter
A line consisting of three main stresses
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Dimeter
A line consisting of two main stresses
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Sprung verse
A metrical pattern where there is a highly variable number of stressed syllables and the heavily stressed syllables are the determining factor
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Feminine ending
The end of a line whose last syllable is lightly stressed
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Masculine ending
The end of a line whose final syllable is heavily stressed
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Internal rhyme
A rhyme that occurs midline
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Pararhyme
A deliberately imperfect rhyme (eg war/wire or on/organ) to give the sense of echo
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Volta
Turning point in a sonnet. Between the octet and sestet in a Petrarchan sonnet and sometimes between the 8th and 9th or between the 12th and 13th lines of a Shakespearean sonnet
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