Masculine Rhyme: In verse, so-called masculine rhyme is a monosyllabic rhyme or a rhyme that occurs only in stressed final syllables (such as claims, flames or rare, despair). Emily Dickinson used this type of rhyme to great effect in the last stanza of “After great pain, a formal feeling comes—”: “This is the Hour of Lead— / Remembered, if outlived, / As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow— / First—Chill—then Stupor—then the letting go—”
Epithalamium: A song or poem to the bride and bridegroom at their wedding is an epithalamium. In ancient Greece the singing of such songs was a traditional way of invoking good fortune on the marriage and often of indulging in ribaldry.
Cloak-and-sword drama (also called cloak-and-dagger theatre, Spanish comedia de capa y espada) is the name for 17th-century Spanish plays of upper-middle-class manners and intrigue. The name derives from the cloak and sword that were part of the typical street dress of students, soldiers, and cavaliers, the favourite heroes. The type was anticipated by the plays of Bartolomé de Torres Naharro, but its popularity was established by the inventive dramas of Lope de Vega and Tirso de Molina.
Tercet: a tercet is a poetic stanza that consists of three lines of verse, usually involving rhyme, as in William Shakespeare’s “The Phoenix and the Turtle”: “Death is now the phoenix’ nest; / And the turtle’s loyal breast / To eternity doth rest,…”
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