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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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melic verse
Literature; Poetry
Capable of being sung. The term is derived from an ornate form of Greek lyric poetry of the 7th and 6th centuries B.C.
masculine rhyme
Literature; Poetry
A rhyme occurring in words of one syllable or in an accented final syllable, such as light and sight or arise and surprise.
measure
Literature; Poetry
Poetic rhythm or cadence as determined by the syllables in a line of poetry with respect to quantity and accent; also, meter; also, a metrical foot.
marinism
Literature; Poetry
Excessive ornateness marked by the use of extravagant metaphors, so named from the 17th century Italian poet, Giambattista Marino, and his school of followers.
meistersingers
Literature; Poetry
Members of various German trade guilds formed in the 15th and 16th centuries by merchants and craftsmen for the cultivation of poetry and music, succeeding the Minnesingers.
meiosis
Literature; Poetry
An understatement; the presentation of a thing with under emphasis in order to achieve a greater effect.
madrigal
Literature; Poetry
A short medieval lyric or pastoral poem expressing a simple delicate thought.