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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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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 lines so that there ...
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.
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 | geous for | ...
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 of time to ...
proverb
Literature; Poetry
A brief, pithy popular saying or epigram embodying some familiar truth, practical interpretation of experience, or useful thought.
