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Monometer A line of verse in poetry that has only one metrical foot.

Dimeter A line of verse consisting of two metrical feet.

Trimeter A line of verse consisting of three metrical feet.

Tetrameter A line of verse consisting of four metrical feet.

Pentameter A line of verse consisting of five metrical feet.

Hexameter A line of verse consisting of six metrical feet.

Heptameter A line of verse consisting of seven metrical feet.

Iambic A metrical foot composed of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.

Trochaic A metrical foot composed of one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable.

Dactylic A metrical foot composed of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables.

Anapestic A metrical foot composed of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable.

Spondaic A metrical foot composed of two stressed syllables.

Pure meter A consistent, unvarying pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables throughout a poem.

Impure meter A line or section of verse that deviates from its established metrical pattern.

Catalexis The omission of a syllable from the final foot of a metrical line.

Hypercatalexis The addition of an extra syllable at the end of a metrically complete line.

Anacrusis One or more extra unstressed syllables at the beginning of a line, before the regular meter begins.

Lame foot A metrical foot that is missing a syllable, creating an irregular or "incomplete" foot.

Masculine rhyme A rhyme in which the final syllable of each word is stressed.

Feminine rhyme A rhyme in which an unstressed syllable follows the stressed syllable in each word.

Syntax The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.

Enjambment The running over of a sentence or clause from one poetic line to the next without a terminal punctuation mark.

End-stopped line A line of poetry that concludes with a punctuation mark, signaling a pause.

Slant rhyme (half rhyme) A rhyme in which the stressed syllables of ending consonants match, but the preceding vowel sounds do not.

Internal rhyme A rhyme occurring within a single line of poetry.

Repetition The deliberate use of the same word or phrase multiple times for emphasis or effect.

Anaphora The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines or clauses.

Alliteration The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in closely positioned words.

Consonance The repetition of consonant sounds in close proximity, often at the middle or end of words.

Assonance The repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words.

Personification Attributing human qualities or actions to nonhuman entities or abstract ideas.

Conceit An extended metaphor that makes a strikingly elaborate or surprising comparison between two very different things.

Allusion A brief, indirect reference to a person, place, event, or literary work assumed to be familiar to the reader.