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                                Here lies honest William, whose heart was a mint,
                                While the owner ne'er knew half the good that was in't;
                                The pupil of impulse, it forc'd him along,
                                His conduct still right, with his argument wrong;
                                Still aiming at honour, yet fearing to roam,
                                The coachman was tipsy, the chariot drove home;
                                Would you ask for his merits, alas! he had none,
                                What was good was spontaneous, his faults were his own.
                                                            --Oliver Goldsmith
 
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