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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. List of closed pairs of English rhyming words - Wikipedia

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    In an anapestic pair, each word is an anapest and has the first and second syllables unstressed and the third syllable stressed. At this time, no anapestic pairs have been found. The pair " uneclipsed , unellipsed " is disqualified because uneclipsed also rhymes with ellipsed , and because unellipsed also rhymes with eclipsed .

  4. Digon - Wikipedia

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    A regular digon has both angles equal and both sides equal and is represented by Schläfli symbol {2}. It may be constructed on a sphere as a pair of 180 degree arcs connecting antipodal points, when it forms a lune. The digon is the simplest abstract polytope of rank 2. A truncated digon, t{2} is a square, {4}. An alternated digon, h{2} is a ...

  5. Stød - Wikipedia

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    Two-syllable words with accent on the first syllable do not take stød, nor do closed monosyllables ending in a non-sonorant. [6] In Standard Danish, stød is mainly found in words that have certain phonological patterns, namely those that have a heavy stressed syllable, with a coda of a sonorant or semivowel (i.e. words ending in vowel + /r, j ...

  6. Glossary of shapes with metaphorical names - Wikipedia

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    M-shape, the shape that resembles the capital letter M (interchangeable with the W-shape) N-shape, the shape that resembles the capital letter N (interchangeable with the Z-shape) O-shape, the shape that resembles the capital letter O. O-ring; P-shape, the shape that resembles the capital letter P. P-trap, a P-shaped pipe under a sink or basin

  7. List of two-dimensional geometric shapes - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of two-dimensional geometric shapes in Euclidean and other geometries. For mathematical objects in more dimensions, see list of mathematical shapes. For a broader scope, see list of shapes.

  8. 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]

  9. 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.