Masculine and feminine endings
Patterns of syllabic stress / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see grammatical gender.
A masculine ending and feminine ending or weak ending[1] are terms used in prosody, the study of verse form. "masculine ending" refers to a line ending in a stressed syllable. "feminine ending" is its opposite, describing a line ending in a stressless syllable. This definition is applicable in most cases; see below, however, for a more refined characterization.
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