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Masculine ending and feminine ending 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. ==Example== Below are the first two stanzas of "A Psalm of Life" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. In each stanza, the first and third lines have a feminine ending and the second and fourth lines a masculine one. :Tell me not, in mournful numbers, :Life is but an empty dream! :For the soul is dead that slumbers, :And things are not what they seem. :Life is real! Life is earnest! :And the grave is not its goal; :Dust thou art, to dust returnest, :Was not spoken of the soul. The final stressless syllables, creating feminine endings, are ''-bers'', again ''bers'', ''-nest'', and again ''-nest'' The final stressed syllables, creating masculine endings, are ''dream'', ''seem'', ''goal'', and ''soul''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Masculine and feminine endings」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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