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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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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 parlor 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.
boustrophedon
Literature; Poetry
Boustrophedon is an ancient method of writing (prose or poetry) in which the lines are inscribed alternately from right to left and from left to right. The interesting challenge is trying to stick to ...
blank verse
Literature; Poetry
Poetry written without rhymes, but which retains a set metrical pattern, usually iambic pentameter (or five iambic feet per line) in English verse. Since it is a very flexible form, the writer not ...
baroque
Literature; Poetry
An elaborate, extravagantly complex, sometimes grotesque, style of artistic expression prevalent in the late sixteenth to early eighteenth centuries. The baroque influence on poetry was expressed by ...
bathos
Literature; Poetry
An unintentional shift from the sublime to the ridiculous which can result from the use of overly elevated language to describe trivial subject matter, or from an exaggerated attempt at pathos which ...
