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                    In Mathematicks he was greater
                    Then Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater:
                    For he by Geometrick scale
                    Could take the size of Pots of Ale;
                     Resolve by Signes and Tangents straight,
                     If Bread or Butter wanted weight,
                    And wisely tell what hour o'th day
                    The Clock does strike, by Algebra.
                                                --Samuel Butler
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