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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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Gongorism
Literature; Poetry
Named for the 17th century Spanish poet, Luis de Gongora y Argote, a literary style characterised by stilted obscurity and the use of affected devices of embellishment.
Grave
Literature; Poetry
In poetry, a mark ( ` ) indicating that the e in the English ending ed is to be pronounced for the sake of meter.
Goliardic poetry
Literature; Poetry
Satiric verse which flourished in the 12th and 13th centuries, usually consisting of a stanza of four 13-syllable lines in feminine rhyme, sometimes with a concluding hexameter. The satire was ...
Gnome
Literature; Poetry
An aphorism, a short statement of proverbial truth. Composers of such verse are known as gnomic poets.
Ghazal
Literature; Poetry
A monorhymed Middle Eastern lyric poem in which the first two lines rhyme with a corresponding rhyme in the second line of each succeeding couplet, thus a rhyme scheme of aa, ba, ca, etc.
Gleeman
Literature; Poetry
An old English minstrel. Gleemen sometimes composed their own verses, but often recited poetry written by a scop.
Georgic
Literature; Poetry
A poem dealing with a rural or agricultural topic, but differing from pastoral poetry in that the primary intention of a georgic is didactic.
