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| 7575076136 | Rhythm | recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds | 0 | |
| 7575078750 | stress | places emphasis on one syllable over another | 1 | |
| 7575083552 | meter | when stress recurs | 2 | |
| 7575086039 | prosody | all metrical elements of a poem; the patterns of rhythm and stress | 3 | |
| 7575091803 | scansion | measuring stress to determine a metrical pattern | 4 | |
| 7575098081 | foot | metrical unit by which a line of poetry is measured | 5 | |
| 7575101635 | iamb | unstressed, stressed | 6 | |
| 7575106535 | trochee | stressed, unstressed | 7 | |
| 7575109552 | anapest | unstressed, unstressed, stressed | 8 | |
| 7575113412 | dactyl | stressed, unstressed, unstressed | 9 | |
| 7575115167 | spondee | stressed, stressed | 10 | |
| 7575118341 | rising meters | move from unstressed to stressed | 11 | |
| 7575124997 | falling meters | move from stressed to unstressed | 12 | |
| 7575127002 | line | measured by number of feet | 13 | |
| 7575129061 | iambic pentameter | five foot iambic rhythm | 14 | |
| 7575151566 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 15 | |
| 7575156020 | masculine ending | line ending in stressed syllable | 16 | |
| 7575164076 | feminine ending | line ending in unstressed syllable | 17 | |
| 7575171172 | caesura | pause within a line | 18 | |
| 7575173985 | end-stopped line | a line with a pause at the end | 19 | |
| 7575177590 | run-on line | a line that ends without pause | 20 | |
| 7575181148 | enjambment | a line that runs from one line to another | 21 |
