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Apocopated Rhyme And Meter

Entertainment / Literature / Apocopated Rhyme And Meter: Poetic use of apocope to create a rhyming word at the end of a line or to balance the number of syllables to stay within metrical restraints (see meter). (The latter type might be more accurately call MORE

Apocope

Entertainment / Literature / Apocope: Deleting a syllable or letter from the end of a word. In The Merchant of Venice, one character says, 'when I ope my lips let no dog bark,' and the last syllable of open falls away into ope before the MORE

Apocopated Rhym

Lifestyle / Poetry / Apocopated Rhym: an imperfect rhyme between the final syllable of a word and the penultimate syllable of another word. For example, Cardinals, red and dun, Chatter when it's sunny. MORE

Aphesis

Entertainment / Literature / Aphesis: Linguistically, the omission of an unaccented syllable from the front of a word. Contrast with the more general rhetorical term, aphaearesis. MORE