Caesura, the classical term for a pause, usually grammatical and extra-metrical (i. e. not reckoned in the time scheme). When it follows an accented syllable it is called masculine; when it follows an unaccented syllable it is feminine; when it occurs within a line it is called medial; when it occurs after an 'extra' unstressed syllable it is called epic (though as frequent in drama as in epic), as—
And earth's base built on stubble. | But come, let's on.
Milton, Comus, l. 509
Catalexis; see Truncation.
Choriamb, a classical foot, — ◡ ◡ —, [51].
Common Measure (C. M.), the regular Ballad Metre, [103] f.
Consonance, specifically, in metrics, a form of incomplete rime in which the consonantal sounds agree but the vowel sounds differ, [166] f. See Rime.
Coördination, the agreement or coincidence of the natural prose rhythm with the metrical (rhythmical) pattern; the process of making them agree, [17] f.
Couplet, a group of two lines riming aa, [88]; closed couplet, one which contains an independent clause or sentence and does not run on into the next of the series, [91] f.; heroic couplet, one of 5-stress lines, usually iambic (called also pentameter couplet), [89], [93] ff.; short couplet, one of 4-stress iambic or trochaic lines (also called octosyllabic couplet), [89] ff.
Dactyl, a foot consisting of a stress followed by two unstresses, _̷ ◡ ◡, [38], [51], [70], [84].
Decasyllable, a 5-stress (pentameter) line; a term used properly only of syllable-counting metres such as the French.