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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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octave

Literature; Poetry

A stanza of eight lines, especially the first eight lines of an Italian or Petrarchan sonnet.

objectivism

Literature; Poetry

A type of 20th century poetry in which objects are selected and portrayed for their own particular value, rather than their symbolic quality or the intellectual concept of the ...

numen

Literature; Poetry

A spiritual source or influence, often identified with a natural object, phenomenon or place.

nursery rhyme

Literature; Poetry

A short poem for children written in rhyming verse and handed down in folklore.

nonsense poetry

Literature; Poetry

Poetry which is absurd, foolish or preposterous, usually written in a catchy meter with strong rhymes. It often contains neologisms or portmanteau words.

normative rhyme

Literature; Poetry

the duplication, at the ends of two or more lines of a given poem, for SOME of the sounds in the last stressed syllable of those lines, plus duplication of ALL the sounds in any ...