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Consisting of some 50,000 distichs or couplets (two-line verses), [2] the Shahnameh is one of the world's longest epic poems, and the longest epic poem created by a single author. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It tells mainly the mythical and to some extent the historical past of the Persian Empire from the creation of the world until the Muslim conquest ...
Heroic couplet. Publication date. 1713. Metre. Iambic pentameter. Full text. Windsor Forest (4th edition)/Windsor Forest at Wikisource. Windsor-Forest is a narrative poem in heroic couplets by Alexander Pope, published in 1713. It is not to be confused with the eight-line poem entitled "Lines Written in Windsor Forest".
The Kural is one of the most important forms of classical Tamil language poetry. It is a very short poetic form being an independent couplet complete in 2 lines, the first line consisting of 4 words and the second line consisting of 3. As one of the five types of Venpa stanza, it must also conform to the grammar for Venpa, the most difficult ...
In Chinese poetry, a duilian (simplified Chinese : 对 联; traditional Chinese : 對 聯; pinyin : duìlián ⓘ) is a pair of lines of poetry which adhere to certain rules (see below). Outside of poems, they are usually seen on the sides of doors leading to people's homes or as hanging scrolls in an interior. Although often called Chinese ...
Doha (Urdu: دوہا, Hindi: दोहा, Punjabi: ਦੋਹਾ) is a form of self-contained rhyming couplet in poetry composed in Mātrika metre. This genre of poetry first became common in Apabhraṃśa and was commonly used in Hindustani language poetry. [1] Among the most famous dohas are those of Sarahpa, Kabir, Mirabai, Rahim, Tulsidas ...
The 20-line poem is made up of rhymed couplets where the speaker likens his youth to a dream as his reality becomes more and more difficult. It has been considered potentially autobiographical, written during deepening strains in Poe's relationship with his foster-father John Allan.
Because of the tendency to write poetry as groups of couplets, most poems had an even number of lines. Generally four lines (two couplets) were considered to be the minimum length for a poem. In the case of curtailed verse , the poem was limited to this length. Other types of poems were limited to eight lines (four couplets).
In poetry, a couplet or distich is a pair of successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet may be formal (closed) or run-on (open). In a formal (closed) couplet, each of the two lines is end-stopped, implying that there is a grammatical pause at the end of a line of verse. In a run-on (open) couplet, the meaning of the first ...