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—{{{3}}} Template documentation [view] [history] [purge] Usage This template allows for the presentation of text in a language other than English alongside an English translation of that text. It is primarily designed for rendering poetic texts and their translations in parallel columns that are responsive to devices with display sizes smaller than a personal computer's screen. That is, on a ...
{{verse transliteration-translation | lang = ja | originalHeading = Original Japanese | 屋根より 高い 鯉のぼり 大きい 真鯉は お父さん 小さい 緋鯉は 子供たち 面白そうに 泳いでる | transliterationHeading = Rōmaji | yane yori takai koinobori ōkii magoi wa otōsan chiisai higoi wa kodomo-tachi omoshirosō ni oyoideru | translationHeading = English ...
A few examples follow: "Round and round the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran" is an example of alliteration, where the consonant r is used repeatedly. "Sister Suzy‘s sewing socks for soldiers" is a particular form of alliteration called sibilance, repeating an s sound. Both are commonly used in poetry.
Better yet, the template should instead be enclosed in the <blockquote> tag instead as that is much more semantically appropriate and would automatically format the verse alike with other quotes. Opencooper 06:24, 12 February 2017 (UTC) This template uses <poem> tags, which translate colons into spaces. The wikitext looks like it has deflist ...
Detail of the Old English manuscript of the poem Beowulf, showing the words ofer hron rade (' over the whale's road '), meaning ' over the sea '. A kenning ( Icelandic : [cʰɛnːiŋk] ) is a figure of speech , a figuratively -phrased compound term that is used in place of a simple single-word noun .
This template may be used when a verse text in its original language and its translation into English are to be displayed together. It displays the original text in italics and the translation in roman type. Optionally, it displays attributions for each text below. The main parameter set is the following:
The speaker of the poem is the character Aedh, who appears in Yeats's work alongside two other archetypal characters of the poet's myth: Michael Robartes and Red Hanrahan. The three characters, according to Yeats, represent the "principles of the mind;" whereas Robartes is intellectually powerful and Hanrahan represents Romantic primitivism ...
For example, referring to the whole with the name of a part, such as "hired hands" for workers; a part with the name of the whole, such as "the law" for police officers; the general with the specific, such as "bread" for food; the specific with the general, such as "cat" for a lion; or an object with its substance, such as "bricks and mortar ...