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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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Stress
Literature; Poetry
The relative force or prominence of word sounds or syllables in verse, i.e., the degree of accent.
Strain
Literature; Poetry
A passage or piece of poetry; a flow of eloquence, style or spirit in expression.
Stornello verses
Literature; Poetry
Verses which include the repetition of certain words in changing order and varied placement.
Stanza forms
Literature; Poetry
The names given to describe the number of lines in a stanzaic unit, such as: couplet (2), tercet (3), quatrain (4), quintet (5), sestet (6), septet (7) and octave (8),Some stanzas follow a set rhyme ...
Stanzaic
Literature; Poetry
A division of a poem made by arranging the lines into units separated by a space, usually of a corresponding number of lines and a recurrent pattern of metre and rhyme. A poem with such divisions is ...
Stanza
Literature; Poetry
A division of a poem made by arranging the lines into units separated by a space, usually of a corresponding number of lines and a recurrent pattern of metre and rhyme. A poem with such divisions is ...
