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The rhythm of this poem is definitely iambic. What do we find, however, at the start of the fourth line below?

He did not wear his scarlet coat,
    For blood and wine are red,
And blood and wine were on his hands

          *     *      /    |  *     /   |  *     /        [possibly even: * * / |  / *  | * /
    When they found him with the dead,
The poor dead woman whom he loved,
    And murdered in her bed.
                            --Oscar Wilde
 

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