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Chapter I: Glossary

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#Accent#--Acephalous--Acrostic--Alexandrine--Alcaic--Alliteration
--Amphibrach--Amphimacer--Note on Musical and Rhetorical
Arrangements of Verse--Anacrusis--Anapæst--Anti-Bacchic
or Anti-Bacchius--Antispast--Antistrophe--Appoggiatura--
Arsis and its opposite, Thesis--Assonance--Atonic--Bacchic
or Bacchius--Ballad (rarely Ball_et_)--Ballade--Ballad
Metre or Common Measure--Bar and Beat--Blank Verse--Bob
and Wheel--Burden--Burns Metre--Cadence--Cæsura--Carol--
Catalexis--Catch--Chant-Royal--Choriamb--Coda--Common
--Common Measure ("C.M.")--Consonance--Couplet--
Cretic--Dactyl--Di-iamb--Dimeter--Dispondee--Distich--
Ditrochee--Dochmiac--Doggerel--Duple--Elision--
End-stopped--Enjambment--Envoi--Epanaphora--Epanorthosis
--Epitrite--Epode--Equivalence--Eye-Rhyme--Feminine Rhyme
(Feminine Ending)--"Fingering"--Foot; Table of Feet
--Fourteener--Galliambic--Gemell or Geminel--Head-Rhyme
--Hendecasyllable--Heptameter--Heroic--Hexameter--
Hiatus--Iambic--Inverted Stress--Ionic; Note on Ionic
_a minore_ as applicable to the Epilogue of Browning's
_Asolando_--Leonine Verse--Line--Long and Short--Long Measure
("L.M.")-- Lydgatian Line--Masculine Rhyme--Metre--Molossus--
Monometer--Monopressure--Octave--Octometer--Ode--Ottava
Rima--Pæon--Pause--Pentameter--Pindaric--Position--Poulter's
Measure--Proceleusmatic--Pyrrhic--Quantity--Quartet
or Quatrain--Quintet--Redundance--Refrain--Rhyme
--Rhyme-Royal--Rhythm--Riding Rhyme--_Rime Couée_ or
Tailed Rhyme--Romance-Six--Rondeau, Rondel--Sapphic--
Section--Septenar--Septet--Sestet, also Sixain--Sestine,
Sestina--Short Measure ("S.M.")--Single-moulded--Skeltonic
--Slur--Sonnet--Spenserian--Spondee--Stanza or
Stave--Stress--Stress-Unit--Strophe--Substitution--Synalœpha--
Syncope--Synizesis--Syzygy--Tailed Sonnet--Tercet--Terza
Rima--Tetrameter--Thesis--Time--Tribrach--Triolet--
Triple--Triplet--Trochee--Truncation--Tumbling Verse--Turn of
Words--Verse--Verse Paragraph--Vowel-Music-- Weak Ending--Wrenched
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Historical Manual of English ProsodyChapter I: Glossary

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