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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

Free verse

Literature; Poetry

A fluid form which conforms to no set rules of traditional versification. The free in free verse refers to the freedom from fixed patterns of metre and rhyme, but writers of free verse employ ...

Sonnet

Literature; General literature

A fixed form of lyric poetry that consists of fourteen lines, usually written in iambic pentameter. There are two basic types of sonnets, the Italian and the English. The Italian sonnet, also known ...

Eye rhyme

Literature; Poetry

In poetry, An imperfect rhyme in which two words are spelled similarly but pronounced differently. An example is the pair slaughter and laughter. See rhyme.

Line

Literature; Poetry

A sequence of words printed as a separate entity on the page. In poetry, lines are usually measured by the number of feet they contain. The names for various line lengths are as follows: :: ...

Villanelle

Literature; Poetry

A poem in a fixed form, consisting of five three-line stanzas followed by a quatrain and having only two rhymes. In the stanzas following the first, the first and third lines of the first stanza are ...

Versifier

Literature; Poetry

A writer of verse, often applied to a writer of light or inferior verse.

Versification

Literature; Poetry

The art of writing verses, especially with regard to metre and rhythm. The term versification can also refer to a particular metrical structure or style or to a version in verse of something ...

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