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Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; ... This is a list of English poems over 1000 lines. ... 1412–20: 30,117 lines: ten-syllable couplets
The 20-line poem is made up of rhymed couplets where the speaker likens his youth to a dream as his reality becomes more and more difficult. It has been considered potentially autobiographical, written during deepening strains in Poe's relationship with his foster-father John Allan.
The typical fib is a six line, 20 syllable poem with a syllable count by line of 1/1/2/3/5/8 - with as many syllables per line as the line's corresponding place in the Fibonacci sequence; [2] the specific form of contemporary Western haiku uses three (or fewer) lines of no more than 17 syllables in total. The only restriction on a fib is that ...
The Moon nevertheless plays a significant role in the action of the poem: as the lover imagines the Moon slowly sinking behind Lucy's cottage, he is entranced by its motion. By the fifth stanza, the speaker has been lulled into a somnambulistic trance—he sleeps while still keeping his eyes on the Moon (lines 17–20).
A long poem allows the author to be encyclopedic in their treatment of the world, as opposed to the potentially narrow focus of the lyric. A long poem poet can work on a long poem their entire life, weaving in their impressions gleaned from the span of several generations (and historical events); it can be an ongoing work.
For Wikipedia articles on the poems, see Category:Poetry by Emily Dickinson or the navigation box at the bottom of the article. Poems are alphabetized by their first line. Punctuation, capitalization and even wording of the first lines may vary depending on the edition of each poem's text used. F/S: Position in Fascicles or Sets. Dickinson ...
Poems founded on the Affections (1815–20); Poems of the Imagination (1827–) 1800 Written in Germany, on one of the coldest days of the Century 1799 On one of the Coldest Days of the Century. Former title: Preceding Publication was titled: "The Fly" "A plague on your languages, German and Norse!" Poems of Sentiment and Reflection: 1800
Sonnet 20 is one of the best-known of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.Part of the Fair Youth sequence (which comprises sonnets 1-126), the subject of the sonnet is widely interpreted as being male, thereby raising questions about the sexuality of its author.