Poetry

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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Perfect rhyme

Literature; Poetry

Also called true rhyme or exact rhyme, a rhyme which meets the following requirements: (1) an exact correspondence in the vowel sound and, in words ending in consonants, the sound of the final ...

Pattern poetry

Literature; Poetry

Poetry in which the letters, words, and lines are configured in such a way that the poem's printed appearance on the page forms a recognisable outline related to the subject, thus conveying or ...

Pathetic fallacy

Literature; Poetry

The ascribing of human traits or feelings to inanimate nature for eloquent effect, especially feelings in sympathy with those expressed or experienced by the writer.

Pathos

Literature; Poetry

An element in artistic expression evoking pity, sorrow or compassion.

Pastoral poetry

Literature; Poetry

Poetry idealising the lives of shepherds and country folk, although the term is often used loosely to include any poems with a rural aspect.

Pastourelle

Literature; Poetry

A form of pastoral poetry associated chiefly with French writers of the 12th and 13th centuries. Typically, the narrator, identified as a knight, recounts his love affair with a shepherdess.

Paradelle

Literature; Poetry

The paradelle is a 4 stanza poem with a very strict line and word format. In the first three stanzas you will repeat lines 1 and 3 and then use all of the words in line 5 and 6. Line 1: A new ...