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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cinquain

Literature; Poetry

A five-line stanza of syllabic verse, the successive lines containing two, four, six, eight and two syllables. The cinquain, based on the Japanese haiku, was an innovation of the American poet, ...

chanson de geste

Literature; Poetry

Literally, a song of heroic deeds, it refers to a class of Old French epic poems of the Middle Ages.

chant royal

Literature; Poetry

An elaborate form of ballade in old French poetry, consisting of five stanzas of eleven lines, an envoi of eight lines, and five rhymes. The rhyme scheme is usually ababccddede.

chapbook

Literature; Poetry

A small book or pamphlet containing ballads, poems, popular tales or tracts, etc.

chaucerian stanza

Literature; Poetry

See Rhyme Royal

chiasmus

Literature; Poetry

An inverted parallelism; the reversal of the order of corresponding words or phrases (with or without exact repetition) in successive clauses, which are usually parallel in syntax.