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This heavily accentual meter that Vachel Lindsay uses in "The Congo" requires us to continue each line for the space of another (unheard) syllable or two. What do we call these?

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             Danced the juba in their gambling-hall

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           And laughed fit to kill, and shook the town,

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            And guyed the policemen and laughed them down

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           With a boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, BOOM....

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