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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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ballade
Literature; Poetry
Frequently represented in French poetry, a fixed form consisting of three seven or eight-line stanzas using no more than three recurrent rhymes with an identical refrain after each stanza and a ...
ballad
Literature; Poetry
A short narrative poem with stanzas of two or four lines and usually a refrain. The story of a ballad can originate from a wide range of subject matter but most frequently deals with folklore or ...
avant garde
Literature; Poetry
The innovating artists or writers who promote the use of new or experimental concepts or techniques.
bacchius
Literature; Poetry
In ancient poetry, a metrical foot consisting of a short syllable followed by two long syllables.
asyndeton
Literature; Poetry
The omission of conjunctions that ordinarily join coordinate words and phrases, as in "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil."
aubade
Literature; Poetry
A song or poem with a motif of greeting the dawn, often involving the parting of lovers, or a call for a beloved to arise.
argument
Literature; Poetry
The subject matter or central theme of a work of literature or a summary of the work, often used as a prologue to a drama, epic, or narrative.
