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  2. Category:Poetic forms - Wikipedia

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    Poems by form (4 C) Poetic rhythm (3 C, 96 P) R. Rhyme (1 C, 46 P) S. Stanzaic form (1 C, 72 P) Pages in category "Poetic forms" The following 141 pages are in this ...

  3. Poetry - Wikipedia

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    Later attempts concentrated on features such as repetition, verse form, and rhyme, and emphasized aesthetics which distinguish poetry from the format of more objectively-informative, academic, or typical writing, which is known as prose. Poetry uses forms and conventions to suggest differential interpretations of words, or to evoke emotive ...

  4. List of poetry groups and movements - Wikipedia

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    Classical poetry movement echoes the forms and values of classical ancient Greek and Latin literature, favouring formal, restrained forms. Major dramatist and other genres figures include Pierre Corneille , Molière , Jean Racine , John Dryden , William Wycherley , William Congreve , and Joseph Addison .

  5. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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    Landay: a form of Afghani folk poetry that is composed as a couplet of 22 syllables. Mukhammas; Pantoum: a Malaysian verse form adapted by French poets comprising a series of quatrains, with the 2nd and 4th lines of each quatrain repeated as the 1st and 3rd lines of the next. The 2nd and 4th lines of the final stanza repeat the 1st and 3rd ...

  6. Outline of poetry - Wikipedia

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    One of the arts – as an art form, poetry is an outlet of human expression, that is usually influenced by culture and which in turn helps to change culture. Poetry is a physical manifestation of the internal human creative impulse. A form of literature – literature is composition, that is, written or oral work such as books, stories, and poems.

  7. Poetic devices - Wikipedia

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    Poetic devices are a form of literary device used in poetry. Poems are created out of poetic devices via a composite of: structural, grammatical, rhythmic, metrical, verbal, and visual elements. [1] They are essential tools that a poet uses to create rhythm, enhance a poem's meaning, or intensify a mood or feeling. [2]

  8. Free verse - Wikipedia

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    Free verse is an open form of poetry which does not use a prescribed or regular meter or rhyme [1] and tends to follow the rhythm of natural or irregular speech. Free verse encompasses a large range of poetic form, and the distinction between free verse and other forms (such as prose) is often ambiguous. [2] [3]

  9. Metre (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    In poetry, metre (Commonwealth spelling) or meter (American spelling; see spelling differences) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.Many traditional verse forms prescribe a specific verse metre, or a certain set of metres alternating in a particular order.