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  2. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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    English-language haiku: an unrhymed tercet poem in the haiku style. Lekythion: a sequence of seven alternating long and short syllables at the end of a verse. Landay: a form of Afghani folk poetry that is composed as a couplet of 22 syllables. Mukhammas

  3. Poetic devices - Wikipedia

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    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 punctuation increases the ...

  4. Poetry - Wikipedia

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    Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic [1] [2] [3] qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings.

  5. Lyric poetry - Wikipedia

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    The lyric poetry of Europe in this period was created by the pioneers of courtly poetry and courtly love largely without reference to the classical past. [11] The troubadors, travelling composers and performers of songs, began to flourish towards the end of the 11th century and were often imitated in successive centuries.

  6. Romantic poetry - Wikipedia

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    Romantic poetry is the poetry of the Romantic era, an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. It involved a reaction against prevailing Neoclassical ideas of the 18th century, [ 1 ] and lasted approximately from 1800 to 1850.

  7. Limerick (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    An illustration of the fable of Hercules and the Wagoner by Walter Crane in the limerick collection "Baby's Own Aesop" (1887). The standard form of a limerick is a stanza of five lines, with the first, second and fifth rhyming with one another and having three feet of three syllables each; and the shorter third and fourth lines also rhyming with each other, but having only two feet of three ...

  8. Metre (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    In poetry, metre (Commonwealth spelling) or meter (American spelling; see spelling differences) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.Many traditional verse forms prescribe a specific verse metre, or a certain set of metres alternating in a particular order.

  9. Category:Poetic forms - Wikipedia

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