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(Herrick's iambic trimeter is varied in the marked lines so that it scans:  / * * / * /.  What do we call this practice?)

                            Thou bidst me come away,
                            And I'll no longer stay,
                            Than for to shed some tears
                            For faults of former years;
                            And to repent some crimes
                         Done in the present times;
                            And next, to take a bit
                            Of bread, and wine with it;
                            To don my robes of love,
                         Fit for the place above;
                            To gird my loins about
 
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