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Be sure to notice how many syllables the last line below needs, and what kind of rhyme sound is required--so as to read the line correctly.

                    Our eye-beames twisted, and did thred
                          Our eyes, upon one double string;
                     So to'entergraft our hands, as yet
                           Was all the meanes to make us one,
                       And pictures in our eyes to get
                             Was all our propagation.
                                                            --Donne

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