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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Fytte

Literature; Poetry

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

So named because it is the form in which epic poetry of heroic exploits is generally written, its rhyme scheme is abab, composed in ten-syllable iambic verse in English, hexameter in Greek and Latin, ...

Heroic quatrain

Literature; Poetry

Heroic couplet

Literature; Poetry

Two successive lines of rhymed poetry in iambic pentameter, so called for its use in the composition of epic poetry in the 17th and 18th centuries. In neo-classical usage the two lines were required ...

Fourteener

Literature; Poetry

An iambic line of fourteen syllables, or seven feet, widely used in English poetry in the middle of the 16th Century.

Form

Literature; Poetry

The arrangement, manner or method used to convey the content, such as free verse, ballad, haiku, etc. In other words, the "way-it-is-said."

Found poem

Literature; Poetry

A poem created from prose found in a non-poetic context, such as advertising copy, brochures, newspapers, product labels, etc. The lines are arbitrarily rearranged into a form patterned on the rhythm ...