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  2. Ordinal indicator - Wikipedia

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    In English orthography, this corresponds to the suffixes ‑st, ‑nd, ‑rd, ‑th in written ordinals (represented either on the line 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th or as superscript 1 st, 2 nd, 3 rd, 4 th). Also commonly encountered in Romance languages are the superscript or superior (and often underlined) masculine ordinal indicator , º , and ...

  3. Rhyme scheme - Wikipedia

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    ABAB – Four-line stanza, first and third lines rhyme at the end, second and fourth lines rhyme at the end. AB AB – Two two-line stanzas, with the first lines rhyming at the end and the second lines rhyming at the end. AB,AB – Single two-line stanza, with the two lines having both a single internal rhyme and a conventional rhyme at the end.

  4. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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    Alliteration: the repetition of initial stressed, consonant sounds in a series of words within a phrase or verse line. [1] Cross rhyme; Holorime: identical pronunciation of different lines; in other words, when two entire lines have the same sound; Imperfect rhyme (aka half or near rhyme) Monorhyme; Pararhyme; Perfect rhyme (aka full or exact ...

  5. Sonnet 80 - Wikipedia

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    The first line of the couplet gives the young man the power to cause one to thrive and the other to be cast away, but the last line shows that is delusional, since the poet maintains his responsibility for his own decay, a word that Sonnet 79 confines to a lapse in poetic talent ("But now my gracious numbers are decayed"). [2] [3]

  6. Ordinal numeral - Wikipedia

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    However, in modern interpretations of English grammar, ordinal numerals are usually conflated with adjectives. Ordinal numbers may be written in English with numerals and letter suffixes: 1st, 2nd or 2d, 3rd or 3d, 4th, 11th, 21st, 101st, 477th, etc., with the suffix acting as an ordinal indicator. Written dates often omit the suffix, although ...

  7. Alexandrine - Wikipedia

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    Around the mid-16th century stricter alexandrines were popular as the first line of poulter's measure couplets, fourteeners (strict iambic heptameters) providing the second line. The strict English alexandrine may be exemplified by a passage from Poly-Olbion , which features a rare caesural enjambment (symbolized ¦ ) in the first line:

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  9. Line (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    Although the word for a single poetic line is verse, that term now tends to be used to signify poetic form more generally. [1] A line break is the termination of the line of a poem and the beginning of a new line. The process of arranging words using lines and line breaks is known as lineation, and is one of the defining features of poetry. [2]