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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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Onomatopoeia
Literature; Poetry
Strictly speaking, the formation or use of words which imitate sounds, like whispering, clang and sizzle, but the term is generally expanded to refer to any word whose sound is suggestive of its ...
Open couplet
Literature; Poetry
A couplet of the Romantic period with run-on lines, in which the thought was carried beyond the rhyming lines of the couplet.
Ottava rima
Literature; Poetry
Italian verse form of eight lines in rhyme scheme a-b-a-b-a-b-c- c. Eg Ariosto's 'Orlando Furioso' and Byron's 'Don Juan'
Octave
Literature; Poetry
A stanza of eight lines, especially the first eight lines of an Italian or Petrarchan sonnet.
