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  2. Multisyllabic rhymes - Wikipedia

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    Lord Byron (1788–1824) used multisyllabic rhymes in his satiric poem Don Juan.For example, he rhymes "intellectual" with "hen-peck'd you all". Ogden Nash (1902–1971) used multisyllabic rhymes in a comic, satirical way, as is common in traditional comic poetry. [4]

  3. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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    It has only 2 rhymes, with the opening words used twice as an un-rhyming refrain at the end of the 2nd and 3rd stanzas. Virelai; Found poem: a prose text or texts reshaped by a poet into quasi-metrical lines. Haiku: a type of short poem, originally from Japan, consisting of three lines in a 5, 7, 5 syllable pattern. [2]

  4. Syllable - Wikipedia

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    The first syllable of a word is the initial syllable and the last syllable is the final syllable. In languages accented on one of the last three syllables, the last syllable is called the ultima , the next-to-last is called the penult , and the third syllable from the end is called the antepenult.

  5. Synalepha - Wikipedia

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    An example is in this hendecasyllable (11-syllable line) by Garcilaso de la Vega: Los cabellos que al oro oscurecían. The hair that endarkened the gold. The words que and al form one syllable in counting them because of synalepha. The same thing happens with -ro and os-and so the line has eleven syllables (syllable boundaries are shown by a dot):

  6. 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.

  7. 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").

  8. Syllabic verse - Wikipedia

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    The indented lines rhyme. As in accentual-syllabic verse, there is some flexibility in how one counts syllables. For example, syllables with y- or w-glides may count as one or two syllables depending on the poet's preference. Moore counts "Dahlias" (a y-glide) as 2 syllables, and "flowers" (a w-glide) as 1.

  9. Talk:Multisyllabic rhymes - Wikipedia

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    So, the definition of feminine rhyme from Encyclopedia Britannica is "a rhyme involving two syllables" and both "my cat" and "hi-hat" are two syllables long, and the book goes on to give more feminine rhymes as examples of multies - "try me/I.V." from Ludacris' "Number One Spot" on pg. 37, and "nervous/surface" from Eminem's "Lose Yourself" on ...

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