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Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes", also known simply as "Fleas", is a couplet commonly cited as the shortest poem ever written, composed by American poet Strickland Gillilan in the early 20th century. [1] The poem reads in full:
The President gave this speech in Cairo, Egypt, outlining his personal commitment to engagement with the Muslim world, based upon mutual interests and mutual respect, and discusses how the United States and Muslim communities around the world can bridge some of the differences that have divided them.
Composed of 29 lines, [5] this poem is a monologue directed to king Shu-Sin (ruled 1972–1964 BC, short chronology, or 2037–2029 BC, long chronology [4]). In erotic language, the female speaker in the poem expresses her ardent desires and longings for Shu-Sin, drawing heavily on imagery related to honey and sweetness .
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A sentence in the Collatio beati Augustini cum Pascentio ariano (Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, MS G.V. 26) [94] Copy of a text originally written in the first half of the 5th century. second half of 6th century: Old High German: Pforzen buckle [95] mid-6th century: Old Korean: Mokgan No. 221 [96] c. 575: Telugu: Erragudipadu inscription [87]
(1936) contains a sentence composed of 1,288 words (in the 1951 Random House version) [6] Jonathan Coe 's 2001 novel The Rotters' Club has a sentence with 13,955 words. [ 6 ] It was inspired by Bohumil Hrabal 's Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age : a Czech language novel written in one long sentence.
Lines written as a School Exercise 1785 Written as a School Exercise at Hawkshead, Anno Aetatis 14. Lines on the Bicentenary of Hawkshead School. "And has the Sun his flaming chariot driven" Juvenile Pieces: Unknown Extract 1786 From the Conclusion of a Poem Composed in Anticipation of Leaving School "Dear native regions, I foretell,"
Perhaps the most comprehensive such analysis is one that was conducted against the Oxford English Corpus (OEC), a massive text corpus that is written in the English language. In total, the texts in the Oxford English Corpus contain more than 2 billion words. [ 1 ]