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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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Language-centered poetry
Literature; Poetry
Where the forms of the words themselves are more significant than the sense or meanings of the words.
Lampoon
Literature; Poetry
A bitter, abusive satire in prose or verse attacking an individual. Motivated by malice, it is intended solely to reproach and distress.
Lai
Literature; Poetry
A mediaeval narrative or lyric poem which flourished in 12th century France, consisting of couplets of five-syllabled lines separated by single lines of two syllables. The number of lines and stanzas ...
Kyrielle sonnet
Literature; Poetry
A Kyrielle Sonnet consists of 14 lines (three rhyming quatrain stanzas and a non-rhyming couplet). Just like the traditional Kyrielle poem, the Kyrielle Sonnet also has a repeating line or phrase as ...
Kyriell
Literature; Poetry
A Kyrielle is a French form of rhyming poetry written in quatrains (a stanza consisting of 4 lines), and each quatrain contains a repeating line or phrase as a refrain (usually appearing as the last ...
Kenning
Literature; Poetry
A compound word or phrase similar to an epithet, but which involves a multi-noun replacement for a single noun, such as wave traveller for boat or whale-path for ocean, used especially in Old ...
Metrical pause
Literature; Poetry
A "rest" or "hold" that has a temporal value, usually to compensate for the omission of an unstressed syllable in a foot.
