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  2. List of closed pairs of English rhyming words - Wikipedia

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    In an amphibrachic pair, each word is an amphibrach and has the second syllable stressed and the first and third syllables unstressed. attainder, remainder; autumnal, columnal; concoction, decoction (In GA, these rhyme with auction; there is also the YouTube slang word obnoxion, meaning something that is obnoxious.) distinguish, extinguish

  3. Multisyllabic rhymes - Wikipedia

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    In it, Kool G Rap gives an example of this kind of rhyme, rhyming "random luck" with "handsome fuck" and "vans and trucks". [10] Other examples in the book include two syllable rhymes such as rhyming “indo” with “Timbo” [11] and rhymes with irregular numbers of syllables such as “handle it” and “candle to it”. [12]

  4. Syllable - Wikipedia

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    This is because a single following consonant is typically considered the onset of the following syllable. For example, Spanish casar ("to marry") is composed of an open syllable followed by a closed syllable (ca-sar), whereas cansar "to get tired" is composed of two closed syllables (can-sar).

  5. Brevis brevians - Wikipedia

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    One kind of word often involved in brevis breviāns are two-syllable words ending in a vowel, e.g. volō. In 1890, Leppermann listed all the iambic two-syllable words with a long vowel in the second syllable that occur in Plautus's iambic and trochaic lines, omitting those at the end of a verse.

  6. Mora (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    For example, in the two-syllable word mōra, the ō is a long vowel and counts as two morae. The word is written in three symbols, モーラ, corresponding here to mo-o-ra, each containing one mora. Therefore, the 5/7/5 pattern of the haiku in modern Japanese is of morae rather than syllables.

  7. Perfect and imperfect rhymes - Wikipedia

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    The stressed vowel sound in both words must be identical, as well as any subsequent sounds. For example, the words kit and bit form a perfect rhyme, as do spaghetti and already. [4] [5] The onset of the stressed syllable in the words must differ. For example, pot and hot are a perfect rhyme, while leave and believe are not.

  8. List of shibboleths - Wikipedia

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    In contrast, outsiders frequently stress the first syllable and fully pronounce all of its vowels: / ˈ s æ s k æ tʃ u ɒ n / SASK-atch-choo-on. [44] Toronto, Ontario: Toronto is sometimes pronounced with the first syllable elided as if it were a two-syllable word: / ˈ t r ɒ n t oʊ / "Tronto".

  9. Iambic pentameter - Wikipedia

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    The English word "trapeze" is an example of an iambic pair of syllables, since the word is made up of two syllables ("tra-peze") and is pronounced with the stress on the second syllable ("tra-PEZE", rather than "TRA-peze"). A line of iambic pentameter is made up of five such pairs of short/long, or unstressed/stressed, syllables.