Alliteration, repetition of the same or closely similar sounds at the beginning of neighboring words or accented syllables (occasionally also unaccented syllables); sometimes called Initial Rime, [166].
Amphibrach, a classical foot, ◡ — ◡, [51].
Anacrusis, one or more extra syllables at the beginning of a line, [71].
Anapest, a foot consisting of two unstresses and a stress, ◡ ◡ _̷, [38], [51], [70], [80] ff.
Antistrophe, the counter-turn, or stanza answering to the first, of a Pindaric Ode, [131].
Arsis, a confusing term sometimes borrowed from classical prosody for the stressed element of a foot; the unstressed element is called Thesis.
Assonance, the repetition, in final syllables, of the same vowel sound followed by a different consonantal sound, [166] f. See Rime.
Ballad Metre (Common Measure, C. M. of the Hymnals), the stanza a4b3a4b3, but admitting certain variations, [87], [103].
Ballade, a formal metrical scheme of three stanzas riming ababbcbC with an Envoi bcbC, keeping the same rimes throughout, and the last line of each stanza (C) being the same. The lines are usually 5-stress, [163].
Blank Verse, unrimed 5-stress lines used continuously, [94], [133] ff., ch. V passim; the 'single-moulded' line, [135] f.; Marlow's, [137] f.; Shakespeare's, [138] ff., later dramatic, [140] f.; Milton's, [142] ff.; conversational, [147] ff.