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                                                                                                            HOME
                                                         On th' other side,
                            Incensed with indignation, Satan stood
                            Unterrified, and like a comet burned,
                            That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge
                            In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair
                            Shakes pestilence and war.
                                                                --Milton
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