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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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Italian sonnet
Literature; Poetry
A fourteen-line verse form consisting of rhyme scheme a-b-b-a-a-b-b-a for the first 8 lines, followed by any rhyme scheme for the final 6 lines so long as it consists of 3 rhyme pairs and it avoids a ...
Poulter's measure
Literature; Poetry
A metre consisting of alternate Alexandrines and fourteeners, i.e., twelve-syllable and fourteen-syllable lines, a common measure in Elizabethan times.
King's English
Literature; Poetry
The standard, pure or correct English speech or usage, also called Queen's English.
Alcaics
Literature; Poetry
A Greek verse form using a four-line stanza in which the first two lines have eleven syllables each, the third nine, and the fourth ten.
Acephalous
Literature; Poetry
The Greek word for 'headless', applied to a metrical verse line that lacks the first syllable expected according to regular metre.
Anxiety of influence
Literature; Poetry
In the unusual view of literary history offered by the critic Harold Bloom, a poet's sense of the crushing weight of poetic tradition which he has to resist and challenge in order to make room for ...
Anapaest
Literature; Poetry
A metrical foot made up of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable, as in the word 'interrupt'.
