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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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line
Literature; Poetry
A unit in the structure of a poem consisting of one or more metrical feet arranged as a rhythmical entity.
limerick
Literature; Poetry
A light or humorous verse form of five chiefly anapestic verses of which lines one, two and five are of three feet and lines three and four are of two feet, with a rhyme scheme of aabba. The ...
leonine ve rse
Literature; Poetry
Named for a 12th century poet, Leonius, who first composed such verse, it consists of hexameters or of hexameters and pentameters in which the final syllable rhymes with one preceding the caesura, in ...
light verse
Literature; Poetry
A loose catch-all term describing poetry written with a relaxed attitude and ordinary tone on trivial, mundane, or frivolous themes. It is intended to amuse and entertain and is frequently ...
lay
Literature; Poetry
Originally the Anglicized term for the French lai. It became popular in 14th century England as the Breton lay, written in a spirit similar to the French lais. In the 19th century the term, lay, was ...
language-centered poetry
Literature; Poetry
where the forms of the words themselves are more significant than the sense or meanings of the words.
lampoon
Literature; Poetry
A bitter, abusive satire in prose or verse attacking an individual. Motivated by malice, it is intended solely to reproach and distress.
