monorhyme
One repeating endsound
Monorhyme is a poem or stanza in which every line ends with the same rhyme.
The technique appears in some medieval verse forms and in Arabic poetry, where it's traditional.
A monorhyme passage can create hypnotic repetition or, sustained too long, monotony: The monorhyme grew tedious by the fifteenth line.
Laudatory verse form
- balladNarrative poem or song
- epicImpressively grand in scope
- Persian poetryIranian literary verse tradition
Two successive verse lines
Device that measures usage
- scansionAnalyzing verse rhythm patterns
- caesuraPause within a line
- enjambmentUnpaused verse continuation
- iambTwo-syllable metrical foot
trochee · foot · pentameter · tetrameter · stressed · unstressed · syllable · cadence
Vowel sound repetition
- consonanceHarmonious sound combination
- alliterationMatching initial consonants
- echoReflected sound wave
- repetitionAct of redoing
refrain · homophone · resonance · phoneme · euphony · acoustic · sonic · vowel sound
Reliable adherence to standards
- repetitiveMarked by recurrence
- monotonousUnchangingly dull
- predictableAble to be foreseen
- unvaryingRemaining the same always
homogeneous · singular · unified · cohesive · seamless · identical · pattern · regularity
ode
Laudatory verse form
- balladNarrative poem or song
- epicImpressively grand in scope
- Persian poetryIranian literary verse tradition
couplet
Two successive verse lines
meter
Device that measures usage
- scansionAnalyzing verse rhythm patterns
- caesuraPause within a line
- enjambmentUnpaused verse continuation
iamb · trochee · foot · pentameter · tetrameter · stressed · unstressed · syllable · cadence · beat
assonance
Vowel sound repetition
- consonanceHarmonious sound combination
- alliterationMatching initial consonants
- echoReflected sound wave
repetition · refrain · homophone · resonance · phoneme · euphony · acoustic · sonic · vowel sound
consistency
Reliable adherence to standards
- repetitiveMarked by recurrence
- monotonousUnchangingly dull
- predictableAble to be foreseen
unvarying · homogeneous · singular · unified · cohesive · seamless · identical · pattern · regularity · sameness