#versification the writing of verse
supertype: #writing__authorship__composition__penning the act of creating written works; "writing was a form of therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed authorship"
subtype: #poetic_rhythm__rhythmic_pattern__prosody a system of versification
subtype: #cadence__meter__measure__beat (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
subtype: #scansion analysis of verse into metrical patterns
subtype: #common_measure__common_meter the usual (iambic) meter of a ballad
subtype: #metrical_foot__foot__metrical_unit a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
subtype: #dactyl a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables
subtype: #iamb__iambus a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables
subtype: #anapest__anapaest a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables
subtype: #amphibrach a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., `remember')
subtype: #trochee a metrical unit with stressed-stressed-unstressed syllables
subtype: #spondee a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables
subtype: #dibrach__pyrrhic a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables
subtype: #sprung_rhythm a poetic rhythm that imitates the rhythm of speech
subtype: #rhyme__rime correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
subtype: #internal_rhyme a rhyme between words in the same line
subtype: #alliteration__initial_rhyme__initialrhyme__beginning_rhyme__beginningrhyme__head_rhyme use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse: "around the rock the ragged rascal ran"
subtype: #assonance__vowel_rhyme__vowelrhyme the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
subtype: #consonant_rhyme__consonantrhyme__consonance the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words
subtype: #eye_rhyme__eyerhyme an imperfect rhyme (e.g., `love' and `move')
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