When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Poetic devices - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetic_devices

    Punctuations as poetic devices. Punctuation is an object of interpretation in poetry; it is semantic. [4] In poetry, they act as non-verbal tools of poetic expression. A form of artistic choice, the poet's choice of punctuation is central to our understanding of poetic meaning because of its ability to influence prosody. The unorthodox use of ...

  3. Category:Poetic forms - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Poetic_forms

    Alemannisch; Аԥсшәа; العربية; Asturianu; Azərbaycanca; تۆرکجه; বাংলা; Башҡортса; Беларуская; Беларуская ...

  4. Category:Poetic forms by language - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Poetic_forms_by...

    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Arabic poetry forms (3 C, 20 P) C. Chinese poetry forms ... Pages in category "Poetic forms by language"

  5. Poetry - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry

    Specific poetic forms have been developed by many cultures. In more developed, closed or "received" poetic forms, the rhyming scheme, meter and other elements of a poem are based on sets of rules, ranging from the relatively loose rules that govern the construction of an elegy to the highly formalized structure of the ghazal or villanelle. [114]

  6. Aeolic verse - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolic_verse

    Aeolic verse is a classification of Ancient Greek lyric poetry referring to the distinct verse forms characteristic of the two great poets of Archaic Lesbos, Sappho and Alcaeus, who composed in their native Aeolic dialect. These verse forms were taken up and developed by later Greek and Roman poets and some modern European poets.

  7. Metre (poetry) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre_(poetry)

    Yuan poetry metres continued this practice with their qu forms, similarly fixed-rhythm forms based on now obscure or perhaps completely lost original examples (or, ur-types). Not that Classical Chinese poetry ever lost the use of the shi forms, with their metrical patterns found in the "old style poetry" ( gushi ) and the regulated verse forms ...

  8. Haiku - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku

    Haiku (俳句, listen ⓘ) is a type of short form poetry that originated in Japan. Traditional Japanese haiku consist of three phrases composed of 17 morae (called on in Japanese) in a 5, 7, 5 pattern; [ 1 ] that include a kireji , or "cutting word"; [ 2 ] and a kigo , or seasonal reference.

  9. Classical Chinese poetry forms - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Chinese_poetry_forms

    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.