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  2. Quintain (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    A quintain or pentastich is any poetic form containing five lines. Examples include the tanka , the cinquain , the quintilla , Shakespeare's Sonnet 99 , and the limerick . Examples

  3. Limerick (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    An illustration of the fable of Hercules and the Wagoner by Walter Crane in the limerick collection "Baby's Own Aesop" (1887). The standard form of a limerick is a stanza of five lines, with the first, second and fifth rhyming with one another and having three feet of three syllables each; and the shorter third and fourth lines also rhyming with each other, but having only two feet of three ...

  4. Cinquain - Wikipedia

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    a form with two 5-line stanzas consisting of a cinquain followed by a reverse cinquain. Butterfly cinquain a nine-line syllabic form with the pattern two, four, six, eight, two, eight, six, four, two. Crown cinquain a sequence of five cinquain stanzas functioning to construct one larger poem. Garland cinquain

  5. Rhyme scheme - Wikipedia

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    ABAB – Four-line stanza, first and third lines rhyme at the end, second and fourth lines rhyme at the end. AB AB – Two two-line stanzas, with the first lines rhyming at the end and the second lines rhyming at the end. AB,AB – Single two-line stanza, with the two lines having both a single internal rhyme and a conventional rhyme at the end.

  6. The Idiot Boy - Wikipedia

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    The poem uses a five-line stanza of tetrameter lines, with a rhyming scheme of ABCCB, [6] said to be a "variation on the long meter quatrain." [7] It has been described as a realisation of the traditional form of the ballad, chiefly because of its "unobtrusive" narrator, [8] as well as "an extreme example of the naive or rustic style in poetry."

  7. In the Bazaars of Hyderabad - Wikipedia

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    The poem contains five stanzas of six lines each. Every line of the poem contains a rhythm and a beat, and the sequence of the phrases "What do you" and "O ye" marks the rhyme scheme of the poem. It follows a unique rhyme scheme in which the second, fourth, and sixth lines in each stanza rhyme. The third and fifth lines also rhyme. Whereas the ...

  8. Tail rhyme - Wikipedia

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    The favoured tail rhyme stanza forms, too, also shortened, with fewer examples of the twelve- and sixteen-line tail rhyme stanzas that had proved successful in Middle English. [16] From the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, the most popular tail rhyme stanza was AABCCB, with the main lines in tetrameter and the B-lines in either trimeter or ...

  9. Poetic devices - Wikipedia

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    A word or words from the initial segment of the first line are used as a refrain to end the second and third stanza to create a rhyme scheme. 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 ...