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How would you describe these lines from Pope's "Rape of the Lock"?

                            Sol thro' white Curtains shot a tim'rous Ray,
                            And op'd those Eyes that must eclipse the Day;
                            Now Lapdogs give themselves the rowzing Shake,
                            And sleepless Lovers, just at Twelve, awake:
                            Thrice rung the Bell, the Slipper knock'd the Ground,
                            And the press'd Watch return'd a silver Sound.
exact rhyme  consonance  metrical augmentation
slant, near, half rhyme euphony headless line
mosaic rhyme  onomatopoeia  catalexis
wrenched rhyme alliteration enjambment
masculine rhyme beat/ictus end-stopped
feminine rhyme implied offbeat anacrusis
multiple rhyme unrealized beat hypermetric syllable
vowel rhyme  tumbling verse diaeresis
monorhyme  sprung rhythm substitution
rhyme riche poetic contraction elision
internal rhyme synaeresis hemistich
assonance  syncope caesura