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  2. Poetic devices - Wikipedia

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    Poetic devices are a form of literary device used in poetry. Poems are created out of poetic devices via a composite of: structural, grammatical, rhythmic, metrical, verbal, and visual elements. [1] They are essential tools that a poet uses to create rhythm, enhance a poem's meaning, or intensify a mood or feeling. [2]

  3. Some Notes on Rhythm in Verse - Wikipedia

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    Some Notes on Rhythm in Verse by Donald Davie first appeared in the Agenda poetry journal, in the Autumn / Winter issue 1972–73, and was later collected in his book of essays and interviews, Trying To Explain. It is a short piece comprising seven numbered paragraphs.

  4. Additive rhythm and divisive rhythm - Wikipedia

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    4 time Divisive Rhythm. 1 whole note = 2 half notes = 4 quarter notes = 8 eighth notes = 16 sixteenth notes. Additive rhythm features nonidentical or irregular durational groups following one another at two levels, within the bar and between bars or groups of bars. [6] This type of rhythm is also referred to in musicological literature by the ...

  5. Sprung rhythm - Wikipedia

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    Sprung rhythm is a poetic rhythm designed to imitate the rhythm of natural speech. It is constructed from feet in which the first syllable is stressed [ dubious – discuss ] and may be followed by a variable number of unstressed syllables. [ 1 ]

  6. Rhythm - Wikipedia

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    Rhythm is marked by the regulated succession of opposite elements: the dynamics of the strong and weak beat, the played beat and the inaudible but implied rest beat, or the long and short note. As well as perceiving rhythm humans must be able to anticipate it. This depends on repetition of a pattern that is short enough to memorize.

  7. Classical Chinese poetry forms - Wikipedia

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    Classical Chinese poetry forms are poetry forms or modes which typify the traditional Chinese poems written in Literary Chinese or Classical Chinese.Classical Chinese poetry has various characteristic forms, some attested to as early as the publication of the Classic of Poetry, dating from a traditionally, and roughly, estimated time of around 10th–7th century BCE.

  8. Serialism - Wikipedia

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    The idea of serialism is also applied in various ways in the visual arts, design, and architecture, [2] [3] and the musical concept has also been adapted in literature. [4] [5] [6] Integral serialism or total serialism is the use of series for aspects such as duration, dynamics, and register as well as pitch. [7]

  9. Metric modulation - Wikipedia

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    Examples of metric modulation may include changes in time signature across an unchanging tempo, but the concept applies more specifically to shifts from one time signature/tempo to another, wherein a note value from the first is made equivalent to a note value in the second, like a pivot or bridge.