韻いん脚きゃく

noun

metrical foot

Technical term in Western prosody; refers to a repeating unit of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of verse.

• 英えい詩しの韻いん脚きゃくには、弱じゃっ強きょう格かくや強きょう弱じゃく格かくなどがある。

  Metrical feet in English poetry include iambs and trochees.

noun

end rhyme

Used specifically for the rhyming of the last character of each line in classical Chinese poetry.

• 漢かん詩しでは、偶ぐう数すう行ぎょうの最さい後ごに韻いん脚きゃくを踏ふむことが多おおい。

  In Chinese poetry, end rhymes are often placed at the end of even-numbered lines.