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  2. Template:Numbered verses - Wikipedia

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    Use this template to quote poems showing the verse numbers. Template parameters [Edit template data] This template prefers block formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status Poem 1 The poem content, written naturally, without <br /> tags String required Author 2 The author of the poem String optional First verse first Number of the first verse (use “continues” if these ...

  3. One for Sorrow (nursery rhyme) - Wikipedia

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    One magpie at the birth of Jesus, perhaps presaging sorrow for Mary: [3] Piero della Francesca's The Nativity Children's game hopscotch played in Lancashire, England with lyric close to the 1846 version of the rhyme

  4. Rhyme scheme - Wikipedia

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    A quatrain is any four-line stanza or poem. There are 15 possible rhyme sequences for a four-line poem; common rhyme schemes for these include AAAA, AABB, ABAB, ABBA, and ABCB. [citation needed] "The Raven" stanza: ABCBBB, or AA,B,CC,CB,B,B when accounting for internal rhyme, as used by Edgar Allan Poe in his poem "The Raven" Rhyme royal: ABABBCC

  5. Thirty Days Hath September - Wikipedia

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    Groucho Marx claimed "My favorite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty Days Hath September...', because it actually means something." [ 10 ] On the other hand, the unhelpfulness of such an involved mnemonic has been mocked, as in the early-20th-century parody "Thirty days hath September / But all the rest I can't remember."

  6. Template:Poetically break lines - Wikipedia

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    {{Poetically break lines}} is a template designed to format poetry simply and reliably. It differs from {} in two significant ways: it does not add spacing around the poem that sets it apart as “block quote”, and it automatically provides hanging indentation when lines are so long that they wrap. This is an advantage in a few specific ...

  7. List of nursery rhymes - Wikipedia

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    First published in Infant Institutes, part the first: or a Nurserical Essay on the Poetry, Lyric and Allegorical, of the Earliest Ages, &c., in London. Peter Piper: United Kingdom 1813 [78] Published in John Harris' Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation in 1813. Polly Put the Kettle On: United Kingdom 1803 [79]

  8. Piphilology - Wikipedia

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    Discov'ring poetry no numerals jarred. Note that in this example, 10-letter words are used to represent the digit zero. Other poems use sound as a mnemonic technique, as in the following poem [13] which rhymes with the first 140 decimal places of pi using a blend of assonance, slant rhyme, and perfect rhyme: dreams number us like pi. runes shift.

  9. Stanza - Wikipedia

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    In poetry, a stanza (/ ˈ s t æ n z ə /; from Italian stanza, Italian:; lit. ' room ') is a group of lines within a poem, usually set off from others by a blank line or indentation. [1] Stanzas can have regular rhyme and metrical schemes, but they are not required to have either. There are many different forms of stanzas.