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                                  Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain,
                                 Where health and plenty cheer'd the labouring swain,
                                 Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid,
                                 And parting summer's lingering blooms delay'd:
                                 Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease,
                                 Seats of my youth, when every sport could please,
                                 How often have I loiter'd o'er thy green,
                                                                --Oliver Goldsmith
 
 
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