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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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.

Stave

Literature; Poetry

A verse, stanza or a metrical portion of a poem.

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 ...