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Cadence: the patterning of rhythm in poetry, or natural speech, without a distinct meter; Catalexis: shortening of a line by one element (adjective: catalectic) Acatalexis: the opposite of catalexis; Acephalous line: a line lacking the first element; Line: a unit into which a poem is divided
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] A distinct numbered group of lines in verse is normally called a stanza. A title, in certain poems, is considered a line.
Line length: The line is defined by the number of syllables it contains. Hemistich length : All but the shortest lines are divided into part-lines ( hemistichs ); each hemistich also contains a specific number of syllables, and ends with a word-boundary (this means that the hemistich cannot end in the middle of a word).
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In poetry, a dropped line is a line which is broken into two lines, but where the second part is indented to the horizontal position it would have had as an unbroken line. For example, in the poem "The Other Side of the River" by Charles Wright , the first and second lines form a dropped line, as do the fourth and fifth lines: [ 1 ]
In poetry, a hendecasyllable (as an adjective, hendecasyllabic) is a line of eleven syllables.The term may refer to several different poetic meters, the older of which are quantitative and used chiefly in classical (Ancient Greek and Latin) poetry, and the newer of which are syllabic or accentual-syllabic and used in medieval and modern poetry.
Lines A, B and C are concurrent in Y. In geometry , lines in a plane or higher-dimensional space are concurrent if they intersect at a single point . The set of all lines through a point is called a pencil , and their common intersection is called the vertex of the pencil.
A colon (from Greek: κῶλον, pl. κῶλα, cola [1] [2]) can be defined as a single unit of poetry. In textual criticism, a colon is a line consisting of a single clause. The term is most often used in the study of Hebrew poetry to refer to the fundamental unit of Hebrew poetry.