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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Mesostich

Literature; Poetry

Arrangement of words or lines in a poem which a series of initial, final, or other corresponding letters, when taken together, form a word or a phrase. See acrostic poem

Melic verse

Literature; Poetry

Capable of being sung. The term is derived from an ornate form of Greek lyric poetry of the 7th and 6th centuries B.C.

One of the main groups of poetry, the others being narrative and dramatic. By far the most frequently used form in modern poetic literature, the term lyric includes all poems in which the speaker's ...

Luc bat

Literature; Poetry

This Vietnamese form (pronounced Luk-BAHT, meaning "six-eight"), alternates odd-number lines of six syllables and even-number line. The eighth (the last) syllable of each even-number line rhymes with ...

Litotes

Literature; Poetry

A type of meiosis (understatement) in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary.

Lira

Literature; Poetry

This is a Spanish style of poetry that utilises a couple of eleven syllable lines. This is interesting, because most of the romance languages use 11 syllable lines commonly in their poetry...English ...

Lay

Literature; Poetry

Originally the anglicised term for the French lai. It became popular in 14th century England as the Breton lay, written in a spirit similar to the French lais. In the 19th century the term, lay, was ...