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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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octave
Literature; Poetry
A stanza of eight lines, especially the first eight lines of an Italian or Petrarchan sonnet.
objectivism
Literature; Poetry
A type of 20th century poetry in which objects are selected and portrayed for their own particular value, rather than their symbolic quality or the intellectual concept of the author.
numen
Literature; Poetry
A spiritual source or influence, often identified with a natural object, phenomenon or place.
nursery rhyme
Literature; Poetry
A short poem for children written in rhyming verse and handed down in folklore.
nonsense poetry
Literature; Poetry
Poetry which is absurd, foolish or preposterous, usually written in a catchy meter with strong rhymes. It often contains neologisms or portmanteau words.
normative rhyme
Literature; Poetry
the duplication, at the ends of two or more lines of a given poem, for SOME of the sounds in the last stressed syllable of those lines, plus duplication of ALL the sounds in any weakly stressed ...
nonce word
Literature; Poetry
From the expression, for the nonce, a word coined or used for a special circumstance or occasion only.
