Meaning | A line of metrical text. |
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Synonym | verse |
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Part of | poem, verse form | A composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines |
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Narrower | Adonic, Adonic line | A verse line with a dactyl followed by a spondee or trochee |
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decasyllable | A verse line having ten syllables |
hexameter | A verse line having six metrical feet |
iambic | A verse line consisting of iambs |
octameter | A verse line having eight metrical feet |
octosyllable | A verse line having eight syllables or a poem of octosyllabic lines |
pentameter | A verse line having five metrical feet |
tetrameter | A verse line having four metrical feet |
Broader | line | text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen |
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Spanish | verso |
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Catalan | vers |
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