Choose  (single click on) the item below that best describes the underlined text or part of a word or words:
                                                                     Click to go on to the next example.

                                                                                                            HOME

What word best describes the quality of the sound in Milton's catalogue of flowers in "Lycidas"?

                             Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies,
                            The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine,
                            The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet,
                            The glowing violet,
                            The musk-rose, and the well-attired woodbine,
                            With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head,
                            And every flower that sad embroidery wears;
                            Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed,
                            And daffadillies fill their cups with tears,
                            To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
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