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                            The silent man in mocha brown
                            Sprawls at the window-sill and gapes;
                            The waiter brings in oranges
                            Bananas figs and hothouse grapes;

                            The silent vertebrate in brown
                            Contracts and concentrates, withdraws;
                     >>>Rachel née Rabinovitch
                            Tears at the grapes with murderous paws;
                                                                --T. S. Eliot
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