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To throw away the key and walk away
Not aburpt exile, the neighbors asking why,
But following a line with left and right
An altered gradient at another rate
Learns more that maps upon the whitewashed wall
The hand put up to ask; and makes us well
                                --W. H. Auden

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