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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Anaphora

Literature; Poetry

The repetition of an opening word or phrase in throughout a number of lines.

Anastrophe

Literature; Poetry

A type of hyperbaton involving the inversion of the natural or usual syntactical order of a pair of words for rhetorical or poetic effect.

Adonic

Literature; Poetry

A verse consisting of a dactyl followed by a spondee or trochee.

Accent

Literature; Poetry

The rhythmically significant stress in the articulation of words, giving some syllables more relative prominence than others. In words of two or more syllables, one syllable is almost invariably ...