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These trochaic tetrameters by Donne can mostly be scanned as /  * | * / | * / | / , giving a final foot of one stressed syllable. What's the term for this?

                    GO and catch a falling star,
                         Get with child a mandrake root,
                     Tell me where all past years are,
                         Or who cleft the Devil's foot;
                      Teach me to hear mermaids singing,

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