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                WHEN I see birches bend to left and right
                 Across the line of straighter darker trees,
                 I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
                 But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay.
                 Ice-storms do that. Often you must have seen them
                 Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning
                 After a rain.
                                                    --Robert Frost
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