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Telling a story in very few words was dubbed flash fiction in 1992. The six-word limit in particular has spawned the concept of Six-Word Memoirs, [8] including a collection published in book form in 2008 by Smith Magazine, and two sequels published in 2009.
Poems of the Imagination (1815–1843); Miscellaneous Poems (1845–) 1798 Her eyes are Wild 1798 Former title: Bore the title of "The Mad Mother" from 1798–1805 "Her eyes are wild, her head is bare," Poems founded on the Affections (1815–20); Poems of the Imagination (1827–32); Poems founded on the Affections (1836–) 1798 Simon Lee 1798
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. There are many types of sestain with different rhyme schemes, for example AABBCC, ABABCC, AABCCB or AAABAB. [1]
The sestina is composed of six stanzas of six lines (sixains), followed by a stanza of three lines (a tercet). [5] [31] There is no rhyme within the stanzas; [32] instead the sestina is structured through a recurrent pattern of the words that end each line, [5] a technique known as "lexical repetition". [33]
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).
"The Happiest Day", or "The Happiest Day, the Happiest Hour", is a six-quatrain poem. It was first published as part of Poe's first collection Tamerlane and Other Poems in 1827. Poe may have written it while serving in the army. The poem discusses a self-pitying loss of youth, though it was written when Poe was about 19.
The following is a List of poems by Robert Frost. Robert Frost was an American poet, ... This page was last edited on 6 October 2024, at 21:57 (UTC).
[note 1] [6] In the 19th century book, A Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar , a proverb concerning magpies is recited: "A single magpie in spring, foul weather will bring". The book further explains that this superstition arises from the habits of pairs of magpies to forage together only when the weather is fine.