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Poetry

Poetry is a form of literary art making use of rythmic and aesthetic qualities of language to evoke meanings. Poetry has a long history evolving from folk music.

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Poetry

procefalico

Literature; Poetry

In Prosody ancient, having an excess of a syllable before a line of verse.

Batrachomyomachy

Literature; Poetry

Taken from a mock-epic poem of anonymous authorship, batrachomyomachy literally means "a battle between frogs and mice." In a figurative sense, it refers to a fight over nothing, or a storm in a ...

Enjambment

Literature; Poetry

In poetry, when one line ends without a pause and continues into the next line for its meaning. This is also called a run-on line. The transition between the first two lines of Wordsworth's poem "My ...

Didactic poetry

Literature; Poetry

Poetry designed to teach an ethical, moral, or religious lesson. Michael Wigglesworth's Puritan poem Day of Doom is an example of didactic poetry.

Abstract poetry

Literature; Poetry

Poetry that aims to use its sounds, textures, rhythms, and rhymes to convey an emotion, instead of relying on the meanings of words.

Academic verse

Literature; Poetry

Poetry that adheres to the accepted standards and requirements of some kind of "school." Poetry approved, officially, or unofficially, by a literary establishment.

Fit or rytte

Literature; Poetry

An archaic term for the division of a poem, i.e., a stanza or canto

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