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Interspersed in Ben Jonson's Volpone, written mostly in iambic pentameter, are rambunctious scenes composed in an older meter. What is this?

        Now, room for fresh gamesters, who do will you to know
            They do bring you neither play nor university show;
        And therefore do entreat you, that whatsoever they rehearse,
            May not fare a whit the worse, for the false pace of the verse.
 
 
exact rhyme  consonance  metrical augmentation
slant, near, half rhyme euphony headless line
mosaic rhyme  onomatopoeia  catalexis
wrenched rhyme alliteration enjambment
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