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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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skeltonics

Literature; Poetry

Named for their inventor, John Skelton, short verses of irregular meter with two or three stresses, sometimes in falling and sometimes in rising rhythm and usually with rhymed ...

shaped verse

Literature; Poetry

See Pattern Poetry

sicilian octave

Literature; Poetry

The Sicilian octave is an 8-line stanza rhyming abababab. According to some authorities, the lines should be hendecasyllables (i.e. 11-syllables long); according to others, iambic ...

sight rhyme

Literature; Poetry

Words which are similar in spelling but different in pronunciation, like mow and how or height and weight. Some words that are sight rhymes today did have a correspondence of ...

sigmatism

Literature; Poetry

The intentional repetition of words with sibilant speech sounds closely spaced in a line of poetry, as in, She sells sea-shells by the sea shore

sijo

Literature; Poetry

A short Korean poetic form consisting of three lines, each line having a total of 14-16 syllables in four groups ranging from 2 to 7 (but usually 3 or 4) syllables, with a natural ...