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dactylic
noun
(dac-tyl)
a metrical foot consisting of one long and two short syllables or of one stressed and two unstressed syllables (as in tenderly)
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catalectic
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dimeter
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hexameter
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hexameters
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toed
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hexametric
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metrical foot
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dactylist
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choliamb
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dispondee
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choliambic
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alcaic verse
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choriambic
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cretic
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epitrite
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acatalectic
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trochaic
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line of poetry
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hypercatalectic
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proceleusmatic
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ditrochee
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glyconian
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choreus
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adonic
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asynartete
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anapestic
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spondaic
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poetic rhythm
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priapean
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octosyllable
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feminine rhyme
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iambic
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antibacchius
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trimetrical
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rhyme royal
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monostrophe
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spenserian sonnet
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metrical
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prosimetrical
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rhyme scheme
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accentual
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diiambus
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immetrical
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internal rhyme
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trimetric
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petrarchan sonnet
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antispast
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hendecasyllabic
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heroic verse
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pedalian
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tiercet
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decasyllabic
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italian sonnet
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quinquesyllable
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dactylar
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bisyllabic
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tetrasyllabic
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eye rhyme
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tetrasyllable
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stichic
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rhythmer
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pentasyllabic
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transprose
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english sonnet
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masculine rhyme
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perfect rhyme
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imparisyllabic
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octosyllabic
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hypermetrical
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synecphonesis
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shakespearean sonnet
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unaccented
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syllabize
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spenserian
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metrify
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dorism
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monopody
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paracrostic
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mismeter
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heptastich
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orthometry
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versicular
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elegiac
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poetic
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alliterative
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