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                    There comes a murmur from the shore,
                    And in the place two fair streams are,
                    Drawn from the purple hills afar,
                    Drawn down unto the restless sea;
                    The hills whose flowers ne'er fed the bee,
                    The shore no ship has ever seen,
                    Still beaten by the billows green,
                    Whose murmur comes unceasingly
                    Unto the place for which I cry.
                                                    --William Morris
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