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This form has been known in many different cultures. In some cases the rhymed prose is a distinctive, well-defined style of writing. In modern literary traditions the boundaries of poetry are very broad ( free verse , prose poetry , etc.), and some works may be described both as prose and poetry.
The sonnet had been adopted into English poetry during Tudor times, notably by Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, who took Petrarch as their model and translated or adapted several of his sonnets into English. The form was taken up by a host of other poets over the next century, for the most part composing long amatory sequences ...
Shakespeare's Sonnet 130, in which, “while declaring his love for his mistress, he mocks the Petrarchan standard vocabulary of praise”, is an example that marks English independence from the conventions of Petrarch. [9] The English sonnet sequences “exemplify the Renaissance doctrine of creative imitation as defined by Petrarch”. [10]
Dale identifies the following varieties of Traditional Pure Rhyme: Single Pure Rhyme (example: cat / mat) Double Pure Rhyme (example: silly / Billy) Triple Pure Rhyme (example: mystery / history) Eye rhyme (example: love / move) Near rhyme (example: breath / deaf) Wrenched stress rhyme (example: bent / firmament) Wrenched Sense Rhyme
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:
Most rhyme schemes are described using letters that correspond to sets of rhymes, so if the first, second and fourth lines of a quatrain rhyme with each other and the third line do not rhyme, the quatrain is said to have an AA BA rhyme scheme. This rhyme scheme is the one used, for example, in the rubaiyat form. [83]
In English-language poetry, especially serious verse, masculine rhymes comprise a majority of all rhymes. [citation needed] John Donne's poem "Lecture Upon the Shadow" is one of many that use exclusively masculine rhyme: Stand still, and I will read to thee A lecture, love, in Love's philosophy. These three hours that we have spent
The Sapphic stanza, named after the Ancient Greek poet Sappho, is an Aeolic verse form of four lines. Originally composed in quantitative verse and unrhymed, since the Middle Ages imitations of the form typically feature rhyme and accentual prosody. It is "the longest lived of the Classical lyric strophes in the West".