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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Quatrain

Literature; Poetry

A poem, unit or stanza of four lines of verse, usually with a rhyme scheme of abab or its variant, xbyb. It is the most common stanzaic form.

Pyrrhic

Literature; Poetry

Quantitive verse

Literature; Poetry

Verse which, rather than on the syllabic count or accent, is based on a systematic succession of long and short syllables, i.e., syllables which take a longer or shorter quantity of time to ...

Proverb

Literature; Poetry

A brief, pithy popular saying or epigram embodying some familiar truth, practical interpretation of experience, or useful thought.

Pleonasm

Literature; Poetry

Redundancy; the use of more words than necessary to express the sense of a thing, but which often stress or enrich the thought, such as, "I touched it with my own hands" or "a tiny little acorn."

In Greek literature, a poem designed for song, of various metres and of lofty style, patterned after the odes of the classical Greek poet, Pindar. Though metrically complex, and varying from one ode ...