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A line of poetry with punctuation at its end.

Example:

Last night, when the moon
slipped into my attic room
as an oblong of light,
I sensed she’d come to commiserate.

Kathleen Jamie, “Moon

As seen here, poets may alterante end-stopped lines with non-end-stopped lines to create a varied rhythm to fit the meaning they wish to convey.

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Where the line breaks onto the next.

Example

In Robert Browning’s poem “My Last Duchess,” the lines break after the word “wall” and “call.”

There’s my last duchess painted on the wall
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder now.

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A group of stressed and unstressed syllables; a unit of meter. A line of one foot is a monometer, 2 feet is a dimeter, and so on – trimeter (3), tetrameter (4), pentameter (5), hexameter (6)

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The repetition of elements having to do with syntax, sound, and stress, among other things, close enough together that one notices the effect. More general than meter.

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A foot having one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable, as in the word “tender.”

Trochaic verse tends to have a march-like quality. Here’s how it sounds in Auden’s “The Fall of Rome”:

But the muscle-bound Marines
Mutiny for food and pay.

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A foot consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable, as in the word “beyond."

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William Bulter Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature.

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Friedrich Münzer was a German classical scholar noted for the development of prosopography, which investigates the common characteristics of a historical group, whose individual biographies may be largely untraceable, by means of a collective study of their lives, in multiple career-line analysis.

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You can read the poem in its entirety (along with some brilliant annotations) here.

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Bogg’s own footnote:

I am not implying that Latin America constitutes the entire United States Empire. But together with Canada, Latin America does constitute the heart and core of the Empire, and both its problems and its fate can best be studied there.

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