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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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Dispondee
Literature; Poetry
In ancient poetry, a metrical foot consisting of four long syllables, equivalent to a double spondee.
Dissonance
Literature; Poetry
A mingling or union of harsh, inharmonious sounds which are grating to the ear.
Dirge
Literature; Poetry
A poem of grief or lamentation, especially one intended to accompany funeral or memorial rites.
Diamb
Literature; Poetry
In ancient poetry, a metrical foot consisting of four syllables, with the first and third short and the second and fourth long, i.e., two iambs considered as a single foot.
Broadside ballad
Literature; Poetry
A ballad written in doggerel, printed on a single sheet of paper and sold for a penny or two on English street corners in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The name of the tune to which they ...
Broken rhyme
Literature; Poetry
Also called split rhyme, a rhyme produced by dividing a word at the line break to make a rhyme with the end word of another line.
Bouts-rimes
Literature; Poetry
An 18th century parlour game in which a list of rhyming words was drawn up and handed to the players, who had to make a poem from the list keeping the rhymes in their original order.
