- Next to last - Put line out, mate ... the one second from the end - Second last - Last but one; as, the penultimate syllable, the last
syllable but one of a word. - The penult.
- A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the
first and last short (~ -- ~); as, h/b/r/. In modern prosody the
accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the
short; as, pro-phet#ic.
- Resemblance of sound. - A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last acce`ted
vow`l and tnose whioh follow it in one word correspond in sound with
the vowels of another word, while the consonants of the two words are
unlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary. - Incomplete correspondence.