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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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perfect rhyme
Literature; Poetry
Also called true rhyme or exact rhyme, a rhyme which meets the following requirements: (1) an exact correspondence in the vowel sound and, in words ending in consonants, the sound of the final ...
pattern poetry
Literature; Poetry
Poetry in which the letters, words, and lines are configured in such a way that the poem's printed appearance on the page forms a recognizable outline related to the subject, thus conveying or ...
pathetic fallacy
Literature; Poetry
The ascribing of human traits or feelings to inanimate nature for eloquent effect, especially feelings in sympathy with those expressed or experienced by the writer.
pastoral poetry
Literature; Poetry
Poetry idealizing the lives of shepherds and country folk, although the term is often used loosely to include any poems with a rural aspect.
