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  2. Rhyme royal - Wikipedia

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    The later sixteenth-century poet Edmund Spenser wrote his Hymn of Heavenly Beauty using rhyme royal, but he also created his own Spenserian stanza, rhyming ABABBCBCC, partly by adapting rhyme royal. The Spenserian stanza varies from iambic pentameter in its final line, which is a line of iambic hexameter, or in other words an English alexandrine .

  3. Qafiya - Wikipedia

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    In Persian, Turkic, and Urdu ghazals, the qāfiya (from Arabic قافية qāfiya, lit. ' rhyme '; Persian: قافیہ; Azerbaijani: qafiyə; Urdu: قافیہ; Uzbek: qofiya) is the rhyming pattern of words that must directly precede the radif. [1] [2] The qāfiya is the actual rhyme of the ghazal. [3]

  4. Ballade (forme fixe) - Wikipedia

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    Note the musical rhyme between the clos of part A (m.15–18) and the end of the refrain (m.27–29). MIDI rendering. ⓘ The musical form of a ballade stanza is a bar form (AAB), with a first, repeated musical section ( stollen ) setting the two initial pairs of verses ( rhyme scheme ab ab), and the second section ( abgesang ) setting the ...

  5. Sestain - Wikipedia

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    A sestain is a six-line poem or repetitive unit of a poem of this format (), comparable to quatrain (Ruba'i in Persian and Arabic) which is a four-line poem or a unit of a poem.

  6. Radif - Wikipedia

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    In Persian, Turkic, and Urdu ghazals, the radīf (from Arabic رديف; Persian: ردیف; Azerbaijani: rədif; Turkish: redif; Urdu: ردیف; Uzbek: radif) is the word which must end each line of the first couplet and the second line of all the following couplets. [a] It is preceded by a qafiya, which is the actual rhyme of the ghazal. [1] [2 ...

  7. Decasyllabic quatrain - Wikipedia

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    Decasyllabic quatrain is a poetic form in which each stanza consists of four lines of ten syllables each, usually with a rhyme scheme of AABB or ABAB. Examples of the decasyllabic quatrain in heroic couplets appear in some of the earliest texts in the English language, as Geoffrey Chaucer created the heroic couplet and used it in The Canterbury Tales. [1]

  8. They Flee from Me - Wikipedia

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    The poem only has the guise of a love poem, but instead is about the more universal theme, fortune (39). Smaller questions are posed by the words Wyatt uses such as "stalking," which has transformed in meaning over time from simple soft walking in Tudor times (23) to its meaning today, of following someone with the intention of doing them harm. [8]

  9. Nazm - Wikipedia

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    Nazm is a significant genre of Urdu and Sindhi poetry; the other one is known as ghazal. Nazm is significantly written by controlling one’s thoughts and feelings, which are constructively discussed as well as developed and finally, concluded, according to the poetic laws.