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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Scop

Literature; Poetry

An Old English poet or a poet troubadour of early Teutonic poetry.

Sonnet

Literature; Poetry

A fixed form consisting of fourteen lines of five-foot iambic verse. In the English or Shakespearean sonnet, the lines are grouped in three quatrains (with six alternating rhymes) followed by a ...

Soliloquy

Literature; Poetry

A talking to oneself; the discourse of a person speaking to himself, whether alone or in the presence of others. It gives the illusion of being unspoken reflections.

Society verse

Literature; Poetry

A short lyrical poem written in an urbane manner or crisp, animated and typically ironic light verse dealing with contemporaneous topics.

Solecism

Literature; Poetry

An impropriety of speech; a violation of the established rules of syntax.

Prothalamion

Literature; Poetry

A song or poem in honour of a bride and bridegroom before their wedding.

Words which are similar in spelling but different in pronunciation, like mow and how or height and weight. Some words that are sight rhymes today did have a correspondence of sound in earlier stages ...