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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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pastourelle
Literature; Poetry
A form of pastoral poetry associated chiefly with French writers of the 12th and 13th centuries. Typically, the narrator, identified as a knight, recounts his love affair with a shepherdess.
syncope
Literature; Poetry
A type of elision in which a word is contracted by removing one or more letters or syllables from the middle, as ne'er for never, or fo'c'sle for forecastle.
syncopation
Literature; Poetry
In the quantitive verse of classical poetry, the suppression of one syllable in a metrical pattern, with its time value either replaced by a pause (like a musician's "rest") or by the additional ...
synalepha
Literature; Poetry
A type of elision in which a vowel at the end of one word is coalesced with one beginning the next word, as "th' embattled plain."
synaloepha
Literature; Poetry
A type of elision in which a vowel at the end of one word is coalesced with one beginning the next word, as "th' embattled plain."
syneresis
Literature; Poetry
A type of elision in which two contiguous vowels within a word which are normally pronounced as two syllables, as in seest, are pronounced as one syllable instead.
synaeresis
Literature; Poetry
A type of elision in which two contiguous vowels within a word which are normally pronounced as two syllables, as in seest, are pronounced as one syllable instead.
