Poetry

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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virelay

Literature; Poetry

An ancient French verse form consisting of stanzas of indeterminate length and number, with alternating long and short lines and an interlaced rhyme scheme, as abab bcbc cdcd dada.

A poem in a fixed form, consisting of five three-line stanzas followed by a quatrain and having only two rhymes. In the stanzas following the first, the first and third lines of the first stanza are ...

versifier

Literature; Poetry

A writer of verse, often applied to a writer of light or inferior verse.

versification

Literature; Poetry

The art of writing verses, especially with regard to meter and rhythm. The term versification can also refer to a particular metrical structure or style or to a version in verse of something ...

versicle

Literature; Poetry

A little verse; also, a short passage said or sung by a leader in public worship and followed by a response from the people.

verset

Literature; Poetry

A short verse, especially one from a sacred book.

verse

Literature; Poetry

A line of writing arranged in a metrical pattern, i.e., a line of poetry. Also, a piece of poetry or a particular form of poetry such as free verse, blank verse, etc., or the art or work of a poet.