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  2. Brevis brevians - Wikipedia

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    One kind of word often involved in brevis breviāns are two-syllable words ending in a vowel, e.g. volō. In 1890, Leppermann listed all the iambic two-syllable words with a long vowel in the second syllable that occur in Plautus's iambic and trochaic lines, omitting those at the end of a verse.

  3. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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    Acephalous line: a line lacking the first element. Line: a unit into which a poem is divided. Line break: the termination of the line of a poem and the beginning of a new line. Metre (or meter): the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse. Metres are influenced by syllables and their "weight".

  4. Longest word in English - Wikipedia

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    The longest English word typable using only the top row of letters has 11 letters: rupturewort. The word teetertotter (used in North American English) is longer at 12 letters, although it is usually spelled with a hyphen. The longest using only the middle row is shakalshas (10 letters).

  5. Spondee - Wikipedia

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    antibacchius. – – –. molossus. See main article for tetrasyllables. v. t. e. A spondee (Latin: spondeus) is a metrical foot consisting of two long syllables, as determined by syllable weight in classical meters, or two stressed syllables in modern meters. [1] The word comes from the Greek σπονδή, spondḗ, ' libation '.

  6. List of the longest English words with one syllable - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of candidates for the longest English word of one syllable, i.e. monosyllables with the most letters. A list of 9,123 English monosyllables published in 1957 includes three ten-letter words: scraunched, scroonched, and squirreled. [1] Guinness World Records lists scraunched and strengthed. [2] Other sources include words as long ...

  7. Iamb (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    e. An iamb (/ ˈaɪæm / EYE-am) or iambus is a metrical foot used in various types of poetry. Originally the term referred to one of the feet of the quantitative meter of classical Greek prosody: a short syllable followed by a long syllable (as in καλή (kalḗ) "beautiful (f.)"). This terminology was adopted in the description of accentual ...

  8. Rhyme - Wikipedia

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    Rhyme schemes involving words stressed on the third-to-last syllable or earlier in the word are found in some poems but are relatively rare, especially in longer poetry. As in French, two words with the same pronunciation but different meanings can be rhymed, e.g., супру́га ("wife") and супру́га ("husband's").

  9. Traditional English pronunciation of Latin - Wikipedia

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    In words of one syllable, stress falls on that syllable, as marked in the following syllables with an acute accent: quá, nón, pár. In words of two syllables, stress falls on the first syllable of the word (the penult, or second from the end): e.g., bó.nus, cír.cus.

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