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Poetry whose main pattern is derived from the alliterations within a single line, usually measured in terms of a mid-line break, or caesura: so many alliterations before the break, so many after.
Alliteration is a device frequently used in poetry or rhetoric (speech-making) whereby words starting with the same consonant are used in close proximity- e.g. 'fast in fires', 'stars, start'.
A pause, often indicated in text by a comma or full stop, during a line of blank verse.
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