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  2. Lüshi (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    Seven-character eight-line regulated verse (qilü): a form of regulated verse with eight lines of seven characters each. Extended forms : expansion of the forms listed above with more than eight lines. All lüshi forms are rhymed on the even lines, with one rhyme being used throughout the poem. Also, and definitionally, the tonal profile of the ...

  3. Classical Chinese poetry forms - Wikipedia

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    A three-character line is known from the Three Character Classic, a book for children written in three-character eight-line verse in rhymed couplets. Four-character lines are encountered in the popular form of verse matching, where two verses are matched, often with rhyme, and often traditional four-character idioms ( chengyu ), frequently ...

  4. Cinquain - Wikipedia

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    Ordinarily, the first line is a one-word title, the subject of the poem; the second line is a pair of adjectives describing that title; the third line is a three-word phrase that gives more information about the subject (often a list of three gerunds); the fourth line consists of four words describing feelings related to that subject; and the ...

  5. List of Unicode characters - Wikipedia

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    4 Line feed is used for "end of line" in text files on Unix / Linux systems. 5 Carriage Return (accompanied by line feed) is used as "end of line" character by Windows, DOS, and most minicomputers other than Unix- / Linux-based systems 6 Control-O has been the "discard output" key. Output is not sent to the terminal, but discarded, until ...

  6. Six Characters in Search of an Author - Wikipedia

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    The line between reality and acting is blurred as the scene closes with The Director pleased with the first act. The final act of the play begins in the garden. It is revealed that there was much arguing among the family members as The Father sent for The Mother, The Stepdaughter, The Child, The Boy, and The Son to come back and stay with him.

  7. Quintain (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    A quintain or pentastich is any poetic form containing five lines. Examples include the tanka, the cinquain, the quintilla, Shakespeare's Sonnet 99, and the limerick.

  8. List of Secret Six members - Wikipedia

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    The Secret Six is the name of four distinct, fictional comic book teams in the DC Comics Universe. Each team has had six members, led by a mysterious figure named ...

  9. Asterisk - Wikipedia

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    There is also a two-thousand-year-old character used by Aristarchus of Samothrace called the asteriskos, ※, which he used when proofreading Homeric poetry to mark lines that were duplicated. [5] Origen is known to have also used the asteriskos to mark missing Hebrew lines from his Hexapla. [6]