# poetry question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poetry-question/32056>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 5, 2000, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poetry-question/32056 "2000-09-05T06:01:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chickenhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@Chickenhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chickenhead)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poetry-question/32056/1 "2000-09-05T06:01:31Z")

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i’m writing an explication, and i cannot think of the term that describes a broken line of iambic pentameter.

i.e. (frost at midnight, coleridge)

Echo or mirro seeking of itself,  
And makes a toy of Thought.

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                       But O! how oft,

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How oft, at school, etc.

thanks

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**Author:** ![Chickenhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@Chickenhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chickenhead)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poetry-question/32056/2 "2000-09-05T06:02:42Z")

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dammit that wasnt formatted correctly

Echo or mirro seeking of itself,  
And makes a toy of Thought.

\<SPACE\>--------------------But O! how oft,  
How oft, at school, etc.

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**Author:** ![barbitu8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@barbitu8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barbitu8)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poetry-question/32056/3 "2000-09-05T10:52:08Z")

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I’m sorry. I don’t know the answer to your q. My guess would be an ellipsis, but I don’t know. However, I also want to pirate your OP to raise a q. of my own, which I’m sure you know the answer. What do you call it when you have an internal rhyme?