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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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Double dactyl
Literature; Poetry
A word with two dactyls, such as counterintelligence or parliamentarian; also, a modern form of light verse consisting of two quatrains with two dactyls per line. The first line is a hyphenated ...
Dochmii
Literature; Poetry
In ancient Greek prosody, a metrical foot consisting of five syllables, the first and fourth being short and the second, third and fifth long.
Doggerel
Literature; Poetry
Originally applied to poetry of loose irregular measure, it now is used to describe crudely written poetry which lacks artistry in form or meaning.
Dithyramb
Literature; Poetry
In classic poetry, a type of melic verse associated with drunken revelry and performed to honour of Dionysus (Bacchus), the Greek god of wine and ecstacy. In modern usage, the term has come to mean a ...
Dizain
Literature; Poetry
A dizain is a ten line poem rhymed a b a b b c c d c d; usually (though not by definition) it is written in iambic pentameter. Literary Example: Auden's "In Memory of W.B. Yeats" (second chapter)
Disyllabic rhyme
Literature; Poetry
A rhyme in which two final syllables of words have the same sound.
Distich
Literature; Poetry
A strophic unit of two lines; a pair of poetic lines or verses which together comprise a complete sense.
