An open list of 185 words by hernesheir.
- headless iamb
- tailless trochee
- dibrach
- disyllable appears on 1 other list
- trisyllable appears on 3 other lists and has 4 comments
- tetrasyllable
- pyrrhus
- iamb appears on 19 other lists
- trochee appears on 19 other lists
- choree
- choreus appears on 1 other list
- tribrach appears on 4 other lists
- anapest appears on 15 other lists
- amphibrach appears on 8 other lists
- bacchius appears on 1 other list
- dactyl appears on 32 other lists and has 3 comments
- amphimacer appears on 5 other lists and has 1 comment
- cretic appears on 2 other lists and has 1 comment
- antibacchius appears on 1 other list
- molossus appears on 7 other lists and has 4 comments
- antidactylus appears on 1 other list
- paeon appears on 1 other list
- paean appears on 98 other lists
- paeon diagyios
- paeonic appears on 1 other list
- tetrabrach
- proceleus maticus
- minor ionic
- minore
- monosyllabic appears on 17 other lists and has 2 comments
- double iamb
- double trochee
- quartus paeon
- tertius paeon
- secundus paeon
- di-iamb
- diamb appears on 1 other list
- antispast appears on 1 other list
- first epitrite
- second epitrite
- third eptrite
- major ionic
- dispondee
- fourth epitrite
- dochimius
- adonic appears on 1 other list and has 1 comment
- hemiepes appears on 1 other list
- iambic tetrameter
- iambic pentameter appears on 8 other lists and has 2 comments
- anacrusis appears on 12 other lists and has 1 comment
- greater Alcaic
- lesser Sapphic
- Sapphic appears on 3 other lists
- iambic hexameter
- alexandrine appears on 11 other lists and has 1 comment
- Spenserian stanza
- Asclepiad
- cola appears on 7 other lists and has 2 comments
- verse appears on 28 other lists and has 2 comments
- strophe appears on 10 other lists
- choliamb appears on 1 other list
- choliambus
- scazon appears on 4 other lists
- Sapphic strophe
- hexameter appears on 8 other lists
- tetrameter appears on 5 other lists
- trimeter appears on 3 other lists
- pentameter appears on 14 other lists
- accentual-syllabic appears on 1 other list
- line appears on 36 other lists and has 2 comments
- metrical foot
- inversion appears on 14 other lists
- elision appears on 47 other lists and has 2 comments
- caesura appears on 76 other lists and has 1 comment
- secondary stress
- extra-metrical syllable
- meter appears on 19 other lists and has 1 comment
- Accentual verse
- stress-timed appears on 1 other list
- syllable-timed appears on 1 other list
- stress appears on 10 other lists and has 1 comment
- stressed appears on 8 other lists and has 1 comment
- heavy appears on 19 other lists and has 1 comment
- light appears on 89 other lists and has 2 comments
- unstressed appears on 1 other list
- syllable appears on 11 other lists
- proclitic appears on 5 other lists
- enclitic appears on 9 other lists and has 4 comments
- mesoclitic
- endoclitic
- prosodic appears on 7 other lists
- prosodically appears on 1 other list
- prosody appears on 56 other lists and has 1 comment
- accentual unit
- heavy syllable
- light syllable
- intervening syllable
- unrhymed
- blank verse appears on 9 other lists
- decasyllabic appears on 1 other list
- end-stopped appears on 1 other list
- end-stopping
- end-stopped verse
- run-on verse
- enjambment appears on 36 other lists and has 5 comments
- feminine ending
- light ending
- weak ending
- double ending
- prosodist
- prosodian
- catalectic appears on 9 other lists and has 1 comment
- four-stress appears on 1 other list
- three-stress appears on 1 other list
- one-stress appears on 1 other list
- two-stress appears on 1 other list
- five-stress appears on 1 other list
- seven-stress appears on 1 other list
- triplet appears on 12 other lists and has 1 comment
- eight-stressed appears on 1 other list
- eight-stress appears on 1 other list
- natural pause
- syntactic pause
- rhythmic pause
- line rhythm
- rhetorical pause
- end-stopped line
- heroic couplet appears on 2 other lists
- closed couplet appears on 1 other list
- envelope appears on 20 other lists and has 14 comments
- envelope stanza
- pyrrhic appears on 76 other lists and has 1 comment
- trochaic appears on 11 other lists
- spondiac
- tribrachic appears on 1 other list
- anapestic appears on 8 other lists
- amphibrachic appears on 1 other list
- bacchic appears on 6 other lists
- dactylic appears on 6 other lists
- antibacchic appears on 1 other list
- proceleusmatic appears on 4 other lists and has 1 comment
- choriambic appears on 1 other list
- dispondaic appears on 1 other list
- pherecratic appears on 1 other list
- hudibrastic appears on 6 other lists
- glyconic appears on 2 other lists
- hipponactean appears on 1 other list
- choliambic appears on 1 other list
- trochaic tetrapody catalectic
- dactylic hexameter
- trochaic tribrach
- iambic tribrach
- tribrachys
- dipodic appears on 1 other list
- ithyphallic appears on 26 other lists and has 6 comments
- hexapody
- iambic hexapody
- dimeter appears on 1 other list
- englyn appears on 1 other list
- Hudibrastic appears on 3 other lists
- arsis appears on 4 other lists
- three-rhythm
- hypercatalectic appears on 4 other lists
- brachycatalectic appears on 3 other lists
- dochmiac appears on 2 other lists
- thesis appears on 25 other lists and has 1 comment
- distich appears on 5 other lists
- cytoplasmically
- hendecasyllable appears on 1 other list
- outride appears on 1 other list
- alcaic appears on 5 other lists
- anapaest appears on 2 other lists
- elegy appears on 78 other lists and has 2 comments
- tropologic
- akṣaravṛtta
- varṇavṛtta
- mātrāvṛtta
- pāda
- gaṇa
- anuṣṭup
- śloka
- catalexis appears on 5 other lists
- acatalectic appears on 14 other lists
- epizeuxis appears on 20 other lists and has 5 comments
- galliambic appears on 2 other lists
hernesheir Thank you, marky. I so appreciate the lovely compliment. Nov 27, 2010
marky hernesheir, your lists are like sachets of lexicographical magic dust. great list here. Nov 27, 2010