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                            HER mouth is fragrant as a vine,
                                  A vine with birds in all its boughs;
                         Serpent and scarab for a sign
                               Between the beauty of her brows
                            And the amorous deep lids divine.
                                                            --Swinburne
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