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Though individual examples of English free verse poetry surfaced before the 20th-century (parts of John Milton's Samson Agonistes or the majority of Walt Whitman's poetry, for example), [2] free verse is generally considered an early 20th century innovation of the late 19th-century French vers libre. [2] [4]
(Freestyle): There's no theme today, as this is a freestyle, or themeless, puzzle. The title is a nod to NO SURPRISE THERE (7D: "That was predictable." I enjoyed the long conversational phrases in ...
The words, rules and tune for "Here we go gathering nuts in May" Here we are gathering nuts in May; by Elizabeth Adela Forbes The words and rules of the game were first quoted in the Folk-Lore Record, E. Carrington (1881), [2] followed by a similar description among the games for choosing partners by G.F. Northall (1882). [3]
The history of freestyle rap is explored in the film, with a mix of performance and commentary from a number of artists. Using archive footage, the film traces the origins of improvised hip hop to sources including African-American preachers, Jamaican toasts, improvised jazz, and spoken-word poets.
In the book How to Rap, Big Daddy Kane and Myka 9 note that originally a freestyle was a spit on no particular subject – Big Daddy Kane said, "in the '80s, when we said we wrote a freestyle rap, that meant that it was a rhyme that you wrote that was free of style... it's basically a rhyme just bragging about yourself."
Quaker Meeting, also known as Quaker's meeting or Cracker's Meeting (in the American South), is a child's game which is initiated with a rhyme and becomes a sort of quiet game where the participants may not speak, laugh, or smile, while the player in charge of the "meeting" may act like a comedian in an attempt to elicit one of the forbidden responses, and so get the participant who broke the ...
The game first appears in literature late in the 10th century when Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani mentioned qirkat in his 24-volume work Kitab al-Aghani ("Book of Songs"). This work, however, made no direct mention of the rules of the game, most likely because it is poetry and they would have been common knowledge in the context the book originated in.
Uta-garuta is also the name of the game in which the deck is used. The standard collection of poems used is the Hyakunin Isshu, chosen by poet Fujiwara no Teika in the Kamakura period, which is often also used as the name of the game. Since early 20th century the game is played mostly on Japanese New Year holidays. [1]