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71Heroic verse — consists of the rhymed iambic line or heroic couplet. The term is used in English exclusively.In ancient literature, heroic verse was synonymous with the dactylic hexameter. It was in this measure that those typically heroic poems, the Iliad and… …
72alliterative verse — All poetry written in Old Germanic languages uses a system of alliterative verse, the best examples of which can be found in the OLD ENGLISH poetic corpus. This form of meter doubtlessly originates among oral poets or SCOPS, who would have… …
73blank verse — unrhymed verse, esp. the unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in English dramatic, epic, and reflective verse. [1580 90] * * * Unrhymed verse, specifically unrhymed iambic pentameter, the preeminent dramatic and narrative verse form in …
74alliterative verse — ▪ literature early verse of the Germanic languages in which alliteration, the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or stressed syllables, is a basic structural principle rather than an occasional embellishment. Although… …
75Fixed verse — forms are a kind of template or formula that poetry can be composed in. The converse of fixed verse is Free Verse poetry, which by design has little or no pre established guidelines.The various poetic forms, such as meter, rhyme scheme, and… …
76leonine verse — noun Etymology: probably from French léonin, from Middle French, from Old French 1. : Latin verse in which the last word in the line rhymes with the word just before the middle caesura (as in “gloria factorum temere conceditus horum”) 2. :… …
77Choriambic verse — Choriambic verse, or Choriambics, is the name given to Greek or Latin lyrical poetry in which the metrical unit or foot called the choriambus predominates. The choriambus is a verse foot consisting of a trochee united with and preceding an iambus …
78leonine verse — a form of verse, based upon an earlier Latin form, with a rhyme scheme that requires the last word in a line to rhyme with the word just before a caesura or with a word near the middle of the line. * * * ▪ poetry Latin or French verse in… …
79Accentual verse — has a fixed number of stresses per line or stanza regardless of the number of syllables that are present. It is common in languages that are stress timed such as English as opposed to syllabic verse, which is common in syllable timed languages… …
80blank verse — noun unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter) • Hypernyms: ↑poem, ↑verse form * * * noun : unrhymed verse; specifically : the unrhymed iambic pentameter verse used especially in English dramatic and narrative poetry * * * unrhymed verse, esp …
