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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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quinzaine

Literature; Poetry

The English word quinzaine come from the French word qunize, meaning fifteen. A quinzaine is an unrhymed verse of fifteen syllables. These syllables are distributed among three ...

quintet or quintain

Literature; Poetry

A poem, unit or stanza of five lines of verse.

quatrain

Literature; Poetry

A poem, unit or stanza of four lines of verse, usually with a rhyme scheme of abab or its variant, xbyb. It is the most common stanzaic form.

quatorzain

Literature; Poetry

A sonnet or any poem of fourteen lines.

pyrrhic

Literature; Poetry

Common in classic Greek poetry, a metrical foot consisting of two short or unaccented syllables, as in the third foot of: The slings | and ar | rows of | outra ...

quantitive verse

Literature; Poetry

Verse which, rather than on the syllabic count or accent, is based on a systematic succession of long and short syllables, i.e., syllables which take a longer or shorter quantity ...