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                            With rue my heart is laden
                              For golden friends I had,
                            For many a rose-lipt maiden
                              And many a lightfoot lad.

                            By brooks too broad for leaping
                              The lightfoot boys are laid;
                            The rose-lipt girls are sleeping
                              In fields where roses fade.
                                                    --Housman
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