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Literature

Of or pertaining to the art of writing in any form or style, most especially published works.

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scansion

Literature; Poetry

The analysis of line rhythms performed by scanning the lines to determine their metrical categorization, e.g., iambic trimeter, etc., as a way of describing the rhythmical quality ...

scan

Literature; Poetry

To mark off lines of poetry into rhythmic units, or feet, to provide a visual representation of their metrical structure.

satire

Literature; Poetry

A literary work, which exposes and ridicules human vices or folly. Historically perceived as tending toward didacticism, it is usually intended as a moral criticism directed ...

run-on lines

Literature; Poetry

Lines in which the thought continues into the next line, as opposed to end-stopped.

sapphic verse

Literature; Poetry

After the odes of the Greek lyric poet, Sappho, a verse of eleven syllables in five feet, of which the first, fourth and fifth are trochees, the second a spondee, and the third a ...

run-on couplet

Literature; Poetry

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roundel

Literature; Poetry

A variation of the rondeau devised by A. C. Swinburne, demonstrated in his poem, "The Roundel." He shortened the stanzas and moved the first refrain from the second to the first ...