| FEMININE | In poetry, a ____ rhyme is between stressed syllables followed by identical unstressed ones, as in "merrily" and "verily" |
| TROCHEE | In prosody, a metrical foot of one long or stressed syllable followed by one short or unstressed one (7) |
| IAMBIC | In poetry, having a stressed syllable after an unstressed one |
| IAMB | In poetry, a metrical foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long syllable (4) |
| ANAPAEST | In prosody, a metrical foot of two short syllables followed by a long one; the reverse of a dactyl (8) |
| ANAPEST | Metrical foot with two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed one; such as bada-bing! |
| IAMBUS | In poetry, a metrical foot consisting of one short syllable followed by one long syllable (6) |
| DACTYL | Metrical foot in prosody consisting of one long syllable followed by two short ones (6) |
| ASSONANCE | Repetition of vowel sounds, especially in stressed syllables, in nearby words (9) |
| TONIC | A keynote; a stressed syllable in a word; quinine water to mix with gin; or, any restorative or pick-me-up (5) |
| DRURYLANE | London street which, in a nursery rhyme, is home to the Muffin Man (5,4) |
| ARSIS | A stressed syllable or part of a metrical foot in classical verse (5) |
| SPONDEE | In poetry, a metrical foot consisting of two long syllables |
| AGENTORANGE | There were blue and white ones as well as this notorious Vietnam War defoliant (5,6) |
| TRIMETER | In poetry, a line of verse consisting of three metrical feet (8) |
| SIDE | Have a vertical one, as in the dahlia cultivar 'Dark ___ of the Sun'! (4) |
| ASSONANT | Having the same sound (especially vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables. |
| IAMBS | Metrical feet which consist of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable (5) |
| TR | "And hope and history rhyme" is a line from Seamus Heaney's The Cure at ____. (4) |
| AFFRIGHT | A dispute about origins of feminine rhymes is a terror for poets |
