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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
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere), written by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads, is a poem that recounts the experiences of a sailor who has returned from a long sea voyage.
Le Bateau ivre (The Drunken Boat) is a Symbolist poem written in the summer of 1871 by French poet Arthur Rimbaud, then aged sixteen. The poem, one-hundred lines long, with four alexandrines per each of its twenty-five quatrains , describes the drifting and sinking of a boat lost at sea in a fragmented first-person narrative saturated with ...
Incy-wincies, Spiders (from the nursery rhyme Incy Wincy Spider) Inverness Sneckies Ipswich Binners, Tractor Boys, Carrot Crunchers Ilchester Sickies Irthlingborough Irthlings Isle of Wight Caulkheads (named after the caulking of boats), Boat People (pejorative, refers to those commuting to the mainland for work) Jedburgh Jetharts, Jobbies [49 ...
A rhyming dictionary is a specialized dictionary designed for use in writing poetry and lyrics. In a rhyming dictionary, words are categorized into equivalence classes that consist of words that rhyme with one another. They also typically support several different kinds of rhymes and possibly also alliteration as well.
A pod of six sea creatures surprised whale watchers in Kona, Hawaii, on April 17. That morning, a boat from Hawaiian Adventures Kona was about ten miles offshore when the crew spotted several tall ...
In US Navy slang, also called a "flat top" or a "bird farm". air draft air draught maximum vertical extent of any part of the vessel above the water surface. Clearance required for passing under a bridge. [12] aka Structural section of a vessel that joins together the hulls of a multihulled vessel. alee 1. On the lee side of a ship. 2. To leeward.
A boat full of visitors trekking to an island off the coast off of California thought they were stopping to observe some passing sea creatures.