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Wayne Mills awards the points in a sudden-death playoff during the Wellington Region Kids' Lit Quiz in 2010. The Kids' Lit Quiz is an annual literature competition, in which teams of four students, aged 10 to 14, work together to answer wide-ranging literary questions. The winning team from each region competes in the national final. The winner ...
Though the definition of a long poem is vague and broad, the genre includes some of the most important poetry ever written. With more than 220,000 (100,000 shloka or couplets) verses and about 1.8 million words in total, the Mahābhārata is one of the longest epic poems in the world. [1]
[10] [11] The Mahābhārata is the longest epic poem known and has been described as "the longest poem ever written". [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Its longest version consists of over 100,000 śloka or over 200,000 individual verse lines (each shloka is a couplet), and long prose passages.
Roald Dahl (1916–1990) is one of the most successful children's writers in the world: around thirty million of his books have been sold in the UK alone. [44] Dahl's collection of poems Revolting Rhymes is a re-interpretation of six well-known fairy tales, featuring surprise endings in place of the traditional happily-ever-after. [44]
The poem is first recorded in The Child's Song Book published in 1830. It's Raining, It's Pouring: United States 1912 [53] The first two lines of this rhyme can be found in "The Little Mother Goose", published in the United States in 1912. Jack Sprat: England 1639 [54] First appearance in John Clarke's collection of sayings. Kookaburra
Poem Year published Length Verse form Algerton, Frank C. Columbia: an Epic Poem on the Late Civil War between the Northern and Southern States of North America: 1893: heroic couplet Ammons, A. R. Sphere: The Form of a Motion: 1973: Ammons, A. R. Tape for the Turn of the Year: 1965: Ashbery, John: Flow Chart: 1991: Atherstone, Edwin: The Fall of ...
The villanelle is a nineteen-line poem made up of five triplets with a closing quatrain; the poem is characterized by having two refrains, initially used in the first and third lines of the first stanza, and then alternately used at the close of each subsequent stanza until the final quatrain, which is concluded by the two refrains.
The tablet contains a balbale (a kind of Sumerian poem) which is known by the titles "Bridegroom, Spend the Night in Our House Till Dawn" or "A Love Song of Shu-Suen (Shu-Suen B)". Composed of 29 lines, [5] this poem is a monologue directed to king Shu-Sin (ruled 1972–1964 BC, short chronology, or 2037–2029 BC, long chronology [4]).