Metaplasmic Figures

Prosthesis

Addition of letters to the beginning of a word
I all alone beweep my outcast state.---Shakespeare Sonnets, 29

Omission of letters from the beginning of a word
Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?---Hamlet, 2.2.561

Addition of letters to the middle of a word
Lie blist'ring fore the visitating sun.---Two Noble Kinsmen, 1.1.146

Omission of letters from the middle of a word
Thou thy worldly task hast done,/ Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages. Cymberline, 4.2.258

addition of letters to the end of a word
I can call spirits from the vasty deep.---Henry IV, Part I, 3.1.52

Omission of letters from the end of a word
I am Sir Oracle,/ And when I ope my lips let no dog bark!---The Merchant of Venice, 1.1.93

Substitution of a letter or sound for another within a word
Or, ere they meet, in me, O nature, cesse!---All's Well That Ends Well, 5.3.75

transposition of a letter out of its normal order in a word
With liver burning hot. Frevent.---The Merry Wives of Windsor, 2.1.122