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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decasyllable

Literature; Poetry

A metrical line of ten syllables or a poem composed of ten-syllable lines.

dadaism

Literature; Poetry

A short-lived WWI European movement in arts and literature based on deliberate irrationality and the negation of traditional artistic values.

decameter

Literature; Poetry

A line of verse consisting of ten metrical feet.

dactyl

Literature; Poetry

A metrical foot of three syllables, the first of which is long or accented and the next two short or unaccented.

cycle

Literature; Poetry

The aggregate of accumulated literature, plays or musical works treating the same theme. In poetry, the term is typically applied to epic or narrative poems about a mythical or heroic event or ...

A rhyme scheme of abab, also called alternate rhyme. The term derives from long-line verse such as hexameter in which two lines have caesural words rhymed together and end words rhymed together, as ...