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                                It seemed that out of the battle I escaped
                             Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped
                             Through granites which Titanic wars had groined.
                             Yet also there encumbered sleepers groaned,
                             Too fast in thought or death to be bestirred.
                             Then, as I probed them, one sprang up, and stared
                                                                                --Wilfred Owen
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