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poetic rhythm, prosody, rhythmic pattern
(prosody) a system of versification
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rhyme, rime
correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
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beat, cadence, measure, meter, metre
(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
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sprung rhythm
a poetic rhythm that imitates the rhythm of speech
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internal rhyme
a rhyme between words in the same line
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alliteration, beginning rhyme, head rhyme, initial rhyme
use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
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assonance, vowel rhyme
the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
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consonance, consonant rhyme
the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words
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double rhyme
a two-syllable rhyme
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eye rhyme
an imperfect rhyme (e.g., `love' and `move')
