Distich, couplet; usually in classical prosody the elegiac couplet of a hexameter and a pentameter, [162].
Doggerel, any rough irregular metre.
Duple Rhythm, a rhythm of two beats (though corresponding generally to ¾ time in music), one stress and one unstress, _̷ ◡ or ◡ _̷.
Duration, the length of time occupied by the enunciation of speech-sounds, and therefore an element in all language rhythm, [5]. See also Time.
Elegiac Stanza, the quatrain abab5, [103], [107] f.
Elision, the omission or crowding out of unstressed words or unaccented syllables to make the metre smoother; a term belonging to classical prosody and inappropriate in English prosody except where syllable-counting verse is concerned. Various forms of Elision are called Syncope, Synizesis, and Synalœpha.
End-stopped Line, one with a full or strong grammatical pause at the end.
Enjambement, a French term ('long stride') for the continuation of the sense from one line (or couplet) to the next without a grammatical pause, [62], [92]; opposite of End-stopping. See Overflow; Run-on Line.
Epode, the third (sixth, ninth) stanza of a Pindaric ode, [131].
Feminine Ending, an extra unstressed syllable at the end of an iambic or anapestic line, [71].