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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Tail rhyme

Literature; Poetry

Also called caudate rhyme, a verse form in which rhyming lines, usually a couplet or triplet, are followed by a tail, a line of shorter length with a different rhyme; in a tail-rhyme stanza, the ...

The analysis of line rhythms performed by scanning the lines to determine their metrical categorization, e.g., iambic trimeter, etc., as a way of describing the rhythmical quality of a poem. Scansion ...

Scan

Literature; Poetry

To mark off lines of poetry into rhythmic units, or feet, to provide a visual representation of their metrical structure.

Satire

Literature; Poetry

A literary work, which exposes and ridicules human vices or folly. Historically perceived as tending toward didacticism, it is usually intended as a moral criticism directed against the injustice of ...

Romance

Literature; Poetry

Formerly a mediaeval tale in mixed prose and verse describing marvellous adventures of a hero of chivalry, it later came to mean a short lyric poem.

Rictameter

Literature; Poetry

This is a form of verse called rictameter. The 1st and last lines are the same words. Line 1= 2 syllables, line 2=4, line 3=6, line 4= 8, line 5= 10, line 6=8, line 7=6, line 8=4 and line 9 =2. So ...