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  2. Alysoun - Wikipedia

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    The original manuscript of the poem, BL Harley MS 2253 f.63 v "Alysoun" or "Alison", also known as "Bytuene Mersh ant Averil", is a late-13th or early-14th century poem in Middle English dealing with the themes of love and springtime through images familiar from other medieval poems.

  3. Masculine and feminine endings - Wikipedia

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    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

  4. Rhymed prose - Wikipedia

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    Rhymed prose is a literary form and literary genre, written in unmetrical rhymes. This form has been known in many different cultures. This form has been known in many different cultures. In some cases the rhymed prose is a distinctive, well-defined style of writing.

  5. Sonnet 116 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 116 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet. The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet. It follows the typical rhyme scheme of the form abab cdcd efef gg and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions. The 10th line exemplifies ...

  6. Poetry - Wikipedia

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    Languages vary in the richness of their rhyming structures; Italian, for example, has a rich rhyming structure permitting maintenance of a limited set of rhymes throughout a lengthy poem. The richness results from word endings that follow regular forms. English, with its irregular word endings adopted from other languages, is less rich in rhyme ...

  7. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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    Example: Algernon Charles Swinburne’s translation “Ballade des Pendus” by François Villon. [1] Rondeau: a mainly octosyllabic poem consisting of between 10 and 15 lines and 3 stanzas. It has only 2 rhymes, with the opening words used twice as an un-rhyming refrain at the end of the 2nd and 3rd stanzas. Virelai

  8. Sonnet 57 - Wikipedia

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    The English sonnet contains three quatrains followed by a final rhyming couplet. It follows the form's typical rhyme scheme, abab cdcd efef gg and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions. The sixth line exemplifies a regular iambic pentameter:

  9. 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: