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Caesura
is a pause within a line of poetry that contributes to the rhythm of the line
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Enjambment
occurs when a poetic phrase runs over from one line into the next without pause
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End Rhyme
is the most common form of rhyme in poetry, wherein the rhyme are noted at the ends of poetic lines
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Eye Rhyme
happens when words look alike but are pronounced different from one another
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Feminine Rhyme
consists of a rhymed, stressed syllable followed by one or more unstressed syllable
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Masculine Rhyme
describes the rhyming of single-syllable words, or multi-syllabic words wherein the final syllable is stressed
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Internal Rhyme
places at least one of the rhymed words within a political line
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Near Rhyme (slant rhyme)
where final words sounds are close (but not exact)
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Rhyme
refers to the repetition of identical or similar concluding syllables in different words, most often at the ends of lines
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Rhyme scheme
names specifically the pattern of end rhymes displayed within
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rhythm
refers to the recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds. Depending on how the sounds are arranged, this can result in a pace that is fast or slow, choppy or smooth
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prosody
refers to the overall metrical structure of a poem