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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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didactic poetry
Literature; Poetry
Poetry designed to teach an ethical, moral, or religious lesson. Michael Wigglesworth's Puritan poem Day of Doom is an example of didactic poetry.
Italian sonnet
Literature; General literature
The Italian sonnet, also known as the Petrarchan sonnet, is divided into an octave, which typically rhymes abbaabba, and a sestet, which may have varying rhyme schemes. See sonnet.
Jabberwocky
Literature; Poetry
Jabberwocky is a poem written by British author Lewis Carroll and published in his book "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There". Many of the words included within are nonsense words ...
