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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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Poetry

spondee

Literature; Poetry

A metrical foot with two long or equally accented syllables together, as in bread box or shoeshine. Be the | green grass | above | me

spenserian stanza

Literature; Poetry

A stanza devised by Spenser for The Faerie Queene, founded on the Italian ottava rima. It is a stanza of nine iambic lines, all of ten syllables except the last, which is an Alexandrine. There are ...

speaker

Literature; Poetry

See Persona

sound symbolism

Literature; Poetry

See Phonetic Symbolism

sound devices

Literature; Poetry

Resources used by writers of verse to convey and reinforce the meaning or experience of poetry through the skillful use of sound.

sonneteer

Literature; Poetry

A composer of sonnets; also, the term is sometimes applied to a minor or insignificant poet.

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