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Twitter user Ronnie Joyce came across the poem above on the wall of a bar in London, England. While at first the text seems dreary and depressing, the poem actually has a really beautiful message.
Stalactites hang tight, hang down like tights on a line; stalagmites might bite (if you sit on them), might reach the roof. [8]: 66 Tights hang from the Ceiling, and Mites crawl around on the Ground; You need might to do push-ups (from the floor). You must hold tight doing chin-ups (off the ceiling). Stalactites are on the ceiling.
An 1850 acrostic by Nathaniel Dearborn, the first letter of each line spelling the name "JENNY LIND". An acrostic is a poem or other word composition in which the first letter (or syllable, or word) of each new line (or paragraph, or other recurring feature in the text) spells out a word, message or the alphabet. [1]
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.
Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes", also known simply as "Fleas", is a couplet commonly cited as the shortest poem ever written, composed by American poet Strickland Gillilan in the early 20th century. [1] The poem reads in full:
Villanelle–A poem consisting of two rhymes within five 3-line stanzas followed by a quatrain. The villanelle conveys a pleasant impression of simple spontaneity, as in Edwin Arlington Robinson’s 'The House on the Hill'. Shakespeare Sonnet 18; Sonnet–A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter with a prescribed rhyme scheme. Traditionally ...
The Thousand Character Classic (Chinese: 千字文; pinyin: Qiānzì wén), also known as the Thousand Character Text, is a Chinese poem that has been used as a primer for teaching Chinese characters to children from the sixth century onward. It contains exactly one thousand characters, each used only once, arranged into 250 lines of four ...
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