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Iambic or anapestic (in this case) trimeter (for the first two lines here) in English verse usually is read as if the line continued for another (silent) foot. In the scansion below, that hypothetical continuation is included, and the final stress is underlined and marked in red. What do we call this?

                                *    *     /    *   *     /   *    *   /      *     (*) (/)
                            Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor

                                   *  *  /   *  *       /      *    *    /      (*) (*) (/)
                              With a hairy gold crown on 'er 'ead?
                            She 'as ships on the foam -- she 'as millions at 'ome,
                             An' she pays us poor beggars in red.
                                                                    --Kipling
 
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