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  2. French alexandrine - Wikipedia

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    These three similar terms (in French vers libres and vers libre are homophones [20]) designate distinct historical strategies to introduce more prosodic variety into French verse. All three involve verse forms beyond just the alexandrine, but just as the alexandrine was chief among lines, it is the chief target of these modifications.

  3. Free verse - Wikipedia

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    The unit of vers libre is not the foot, the number of the syllables, the quantity, or the line. The unit is the strophe, which may be the whole poem or only a part. Each strophe is a complete circle. [34] Vers libre is "verse-formal based upon cadence that allows the lines to flow as they will when read aloud by an intelligent reader." [35]

  4. Category:Types of verses - Wikipedia

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    Vers libre; Verso sciolto; This page was last edited on 3 March 2016, at 17:32 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...

  5. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    vers de société vers libre verse verse paragraph versiprose verso Victorian literature vignette A short scene that captures a single moment or a defining detail about a character, idea, or other element of a story. [60] villain villanelle virelay virgule voice volta. Also called a turn.

  6. Alexandrine - Wikipedia

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    Alexander the Great in a diving bell: a scene from the line's namesake, the Roman d'Alexandre.. Alexandrine is a name used for several distinct types of verse line with related metrical structures, most of which are ultimately derived from the classical French alexandrine.

  7. List of calques - Wikipedia

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    Löwenzahn calques French dent-de-lion (dandelion, literally "lion's tooth") Überleben calques Latin supervivo (survive, literally "overlive", which is a synonym of survive) [68] Treppenwitz calques French l'esprit de l'escalier (staircase wit) herunterladen calques English download

  8. A Lecture on Modern Poetry - Wikipedia

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    Hulme discusses how forms rise and fall, and proceeds to the topic of French vers libre, referring to Gustave Kahn's explanation of the technique: "It consisted in a denial of a regular number of syllables as the basis of versification. The length of the line is long and short, oscillating with the images used by the poet; it follows the ...

  9. Libre - Wikipedia

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    Vers libre; LibreOffice, free and open source office suite; Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español; Libra (disambiguation) Liber (disambiguation) Libres ...