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  2. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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    Madrigal: a song or short lyric poem intended for multiple singers. Ode: a formal lyric poem that addresses, and typically celebrates, a person, place, thing, or idea. Horatian Ode; Palinode: an ode that retracts or recants what the poet wrote in a previous poem. Pindaric Ode; Sapphic ode

  3. Ode - Wikipedia

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    Irregular odes further break down the ode's formal conventions. They are sometimes called Cowleyan odes after the English Enlightenment poet Abraham Cowley, who revived the form in England with his publication of fifteen Pindarique Odes in 1656. Though this title derives from Pindar, it is a misunderstanding of the Pindaric ode on Cowley's part.

  4. Caesura - Wikipedia

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    In contrast, a word juncture at the end of a foot is called a diaeresis. Some caesurae are expected and represent a point of articulation between two phrases or clauses. All other caesurae are only potentially places of articulation. The opposite of an obligatory caesura is a bridge where word juncture is not permitted.

  5. Ghazal - Wikipedia

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    Radif: The refrain word or phrase. Both lines of the matla ' and the second lines of all subsequent shers must end in the same refrain word called the radif. Qafiya: The rhyming pattern. The radif is immediately preceded by words or phrases with the same end rhyme pattern, called the qafiya. Maqta': The last couplet of the ghazal is called the ...

  6. Odes 1.5 - Wikipedia

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    The last words of the ode, potenti ... maris deo ' to the god who has power over the sea ' are found in the manuscripts and in the ancient commentator Porphyrio; nonetheless, Nisbet and Hubbard in their commentary (1970), following a conjecture of Zielinski (1901), [4] suggest that the original reading may have been potenti ... maris deae ' to the goddess who has power over the sea ', i.e. Venus.

  7. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles of works - Wikipedia

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    Titles in quotation marks that include (or in unusual cases consist of) something that requires italicization for some other reason than being a title, e.g. a genus and species name, or a non-English phrase, or the name of a larger work being referred to, also use the needed italicization, inside the quotation marks: "Ferromagnetic Material in ...

  8. Ode: Intimations of Immortality - Wikipedia

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    The Latin phrase is from Virgil's Eclogue 4, meaning "let us sing a somewhat loftier song". [12] The poem was reprinted under its full title "Ode: Intimation of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" for Wordsworth's collection Poems (1815).

  9. Odes - Wikipedia

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    The plural of ode, a type of poem; Odes, a collection of poems by the Roman author Horace, circa 23 BCE; Odes of Solomon, a pseudepigraphic book of the Bible; Book of Odes (Bible), a Deuterocanonical book of the Bible; Odes (Irene Papas album) Odes (The Flowers of Hell album) Odes, Victor Hugo's second poetry book