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  2. List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    The song is based on Donna Deitch's 1985 film Desert Hearts, which is an adaptation of Rule's novel. [186] "Soma" Is This It: The Strokes: Brave New World: Aldous Huxley: Refers to the fictional drug used in Brave New World. [187] "Song For Clay" A Weekend in the City: Bloc Party: Less than Zero: Bret Easton Ellis [53] "The Stand (Prophecy ...

  3. List of forms of word play - Wikipedia

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    The term is often used to refer specifically to mishearings of song lyrics (cf. soramimi). Onomatopoeia: a word or a grouping of words that imitates the sound it is describing; Phonetic reversal; Rhyme: a repetition of identical or similar sounds in two or more different words Alliteration: matching consonants sounds at the beginning of words

  4. Rhyme scheme - Wikipedia

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    A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other. An example of the ABAB rhyming scheme, from "To Anthea, who may Command him Anything", by Robert Herrick:

  5. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe - Wikipedia

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    The scholars Iona and Peter Opie noted that many variants have been recorded, some with additional words, such as "O. U. T. spells out, And out goes she, In the middle of the deep blue sea" [3] or "My mother [told me/says to] pick the very best one, and that is Y-O-U/you are [not] it"; [3] while another source cites "Out goes Y-O-U." [4] "Tigger" is also used instead of "tiger" in some ...

  6. The Weary Blues - Wikipedia

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    The music in “The Weary Blues” is a metaphor for life as a black man. The color in the poem is symbolic of the black struggle. It starts with slave spirituals in which "slaves calculatingly created songs of double-entendre as an intellectual strategy", [6] as Hughes does in his poem. When he says, "I heard a Negro play" he is making the ...

  7. Baa, Baa, Black Sheep - Wikipedia

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    The rhyme as illustrated by Dorothy M. Wheeler "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" is an English nursery rhyme, the earliest printed version of which dates from around 1744.The words have barely changed in two and a half centuries.

  8. List of best-selling sheet music - Wikipedia

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    [15] [b] From 1900 to 1910, over one hundred songs sold more than a million copies. [5] Various "hit songs" sold as many as two or three million copies in print. [11] [17] With the advent of the radio broadcasting, sheet music sales of popular songs decreased and print figures failed to make a significant recovery after the World War II (1940s ...

  9. List of Tolkien's alliterative verse - Wikipedia

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    The Lay of the Children of Húrin (c. 1918–1925), an unfinished poetic version of the story of Túrin, going as far as Túrin's sojourn in Nargothrond.It exists in two versions, both incomplete; the first being 2276 lines long, the second containing only 745 alliterating lines, corresponding to the first 435 lines of the first version.