Rime, repetition of the same sound (or sounds) usually at the end of the line, [165] ff.; Masculine, when the repeated sound consists of one stressed syllable; Feminine, when a stressed + one or more unstressed syllables; Triple, when a stressed + two unstressed syllables; Echo or Identical, when the preceding consonantal sound also agrees; Eye-rime, when the words agree in spelling but not in pronunciation, [174]. As distinct from end-rime, there is Internal or Leonine rime, which occurs within the line (sometimes merely a matter of printing). See also Assonance, Consonance.
Rime Couée, see Tail-rime Stanza.
Rime-royal, a stanza borrowed by Chaucer from the French, ababbcc5; also called Troilus stanza, Chaucer stanza, [109] f.
Rondeau, Rondel, French metrical forms characterized by the repetition of the first phrase or lines twice as a refrain, e. g. aabba aabR aabbaR (R being the first phrase of the first line), or ABba abAB abbaAB (the capitals indicating the whole lines repeated), [163].
Run-on Line, one in which the sense runs over into the following line without a grammatical pause, [62], [92]. See Enjambement; Overflow.
Sapphic, a 4-line stanza used by Sappho (and Catullus and Horace) and often imitated in English; the pattern is — ◡ | — ◡ | — ◡ ◡ | — ◡ | — ◡ thrice repeated, then — ◡ ◡ | — ◡, [161] f.
Septenary, Septenarius (fourteener), the old 14-syllable or 7-stress iambic line, later split up into the Ballad metre, [87]; and used also with the alexandrine in the Poulter's Measure.
Sestet, a group of six lines, especially the last six of an Italian sonnet, [120].
Sestina, an elaborate metrical form consisting of six 6-line stanzas and a 3-line stanza with repetition of the same end-words in different order instead of rime, [164].
Short Measure (S. M. of the Hymnals), the Poulter's Measure broken into a quatrain: ab3a4b3, ab3c4b3, [89].