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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verse paragraph

Literature; Poetry

A line grouping of varying length, as distinct from stanzas of equal length. Seldom used in rhymed verse, it is the usual division in blank verse.

Poetic theme in which the poet asks "where are" they, where have they gone. The theme began in Medieval Latin, with the formula ubi sunt used to introduce a roll-call of the dead or missing and to ...

unmetered poetry

Literature; Poetry

poetry without a regular recurring numerical principle in its rhythmic construction, also known as 'free verse'.

unstressed syllable

Literature; Poetry

A syllable that is not emphasized, like the a in aghast or the ish in churlish.

trouvere

Literature; Poetry

One of a school of poets of northern France who flourished from the 11th to 14th centuries and who composed mostly narrative works such as chansons de geste and fabliaux.

true rhyme

Literature; Poetry

See Perfect Rhyme

troubadour

Literature; Poetry

One of a class of lyric poets and poet-musicians, often of knightly rank, who flourished from the 11th through the 13th centuries in Southern France and neighboring areas of Italy and Spain, and who ...