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REFRAIN ~ one or more lines repeated before or after stanzas of a poem

RHYME ~ normally end-rhyme [lines of verse characterized by the consonance of terminal words or syllables]. The rhyme scheme is usually the pattern of end-rhymes in a stanza.

APOCOPATED RHYME ~ an imperfect rhyme between the final syllable of a word and the penultimate syllable of another [e.g., 'DUN' and 'SUNny'].

AMPHISBAENIC RHYME ~ a reverse rhyme [e.g., 'trot' and 'tort'].

ANTISTHECON or WRENCHED RHYME ~ created by distorting a word [e.g., 'somao' for 'some more', 'reward' for reword', 'seccetry' for 'secretary']. 

EYE RHYME ~ words rhyming only as spelled, not as pronounced. Not a perfect or true rhyme [e.g., 'through' and 'slough'].

RICH RHYME ~ rhymes identical in sound (or spelling) but semantically different [e.g., "Felicity was PRESENT | To pick up her PRESENT"].

RHYTHM ~ an audible metrical pattern inside verse boundaries established by the pause. 

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SCOP ~ Old English poet/singer.

SIMILE ~ a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared [e.g., "She is like a rose]. - The difference between a metaphor and a simile is, a simile uses the words "like" or "as". -

STANZA ~ [Italian 'a stopping place']: a group of verses separated from other such groups in a poem and often sharing a common rhyme scheme.

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TORNADA ~ a three-line envoy that include the rhymes of all preceeding stanzas.

TROPHE ~ a semantic figure of speech or of thought that varies the meaning of a word or passage [e.g., metaphor, objectification, personification].