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  2. Baguette - Wikipedia

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    Baguettes de pain. A thinner loaf is called a ficelle (string). A short baguette is sometimes known as a baton (stick), or in the UK, referred to using the English translation French stick. [25] None of these are officially defined, either legally or, for instance, in major dictionaries, any more than the baguette.

  3. History of poetry - Wikipedia

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    Lyric poetry is very similar to songs / song lyrics. They could have as many stanzas as they wanted, which was different to different forms of poetry at the time. There were no real regulations to this new form of poetry, which was invented by Sir Robert Cite in 1789. This form of poetry is known for being the quickest growing type of the past ...

  4. Shakespeare's sonnets - Wikipedia

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    One popular theory is that he was Henry Wriothesley, the 3rd Earl of Southampton; this is based in part on the idea that his physical features, age, and personality might fairly match the young man in the sonnets. [32] He was both an admirer and patron of Shakespeare and was considered one of the most prominent nobles of the period. [33]

  5. Petrarch's and Shakespeare's sonnets - Wikipedia

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    Shakespeare's funerary monument. The sonnets of Petrarch and Shakespeare represent, in the history of this major poetic form, the two most significant developments in terms of technical consolidation—by renovating the inherited material—and artistic expressiveness—by covering a wide range of subjects in an equally wide range of tones.

  6. Sonnet - Wikipedia

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    These 36 poems were written in a hybrid form based on the Petrarchan sonnet that invariably ends with a rhyming couplet reminiscent of the Shakespearean sonnet. [108] Most of these poems are discontinuous, though unified by theme, being vignettes descriptive of the kinds of dreamed and otherworldly scenarios found in Lovecraft's fiction. [109]

  7. Influence of William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Shakespeare's writings were so influential to English poetry of the 1800s that critic George Steiner has called all English poetic dramas from Coleridge to Tennyson "feeble variations on Shakespearean themes." [30] Organisms named after Shakespeare's works include Iago, a genus of houndsharks, [31] and Oberonia, a genus of orchids. [32]

  8. Poetic devices - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Shakespeare's writing style - Wikipedia

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    The poetry depends on extended, elaborate metaphors and conceits, and the language is often rhetorical—written for actors to declaim rather than speak. For example, the grand speeches in Titus Andronicus, in the view of some critics, often hold up the action, while the verse in The Two Gentlemen of Verona has been described as stilted. [2] [3]