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The poem is written in iambic tetrameter in the Rubaiyat stanza created by Edward FitzGerald, who adopted the style from Hakim Omar Khayyam, the 12th-century Persian poet and mathematician. Each verse (save the last) follows an AABA rhyming scheme , with the following verse's A line rhyming with that verse's B line, which is a chain rhyme ...
In Blackwater Woods is a free verse poem written by Mary Oliver (1935–2019). The poem was first published in 1983 in her collection American Primitive , which won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize . [ 1 ] The poem, like much of Oliver's work, uses imagery of nature to make a statement about human experience.
Padmavat (or Padmawat) is an epic poem written in 1540 by Sufi poet Malik Muhammad Jayasi, [1] who wrote it in the Hindustani language of Awadhi, [2] [3] and originally in the Persian Nastaʿlīq script. [4]
In a "Dot's Poetry Corner" segment of Animaniacs, Dot recites a variation entitled "Ode to a Veggie", that goes "Beans, beans, the musical fruit / The more you eat, the more they kick you off the air if you finish this poem." [12] In an episode of Rocko's Modern Life, Heffer Wolfe randomly sings "Beans, beans, they're good for your heart. The ...
The best-known opus of Finnish poetry is the mythical epic Kalevala, compiled by Elias Lönnrot. Arguably the Kalevala established Finland in equal status with Sweden as a national language. [1] Poetry continues to be popular in Finland today and is marked by the individual directions its poets take not limited to traditional schools or ...
"Fee-fi-fo-fum" is the first line of a historical quatrain (or sometimes couplet) famous for its use in the classic English fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk".The poem, as given in Joseph Jacobs' 1890 rendition, is as follows:
The Kalevala (IPA: [ˈkɑleʋɑlɑ]) is a 19th-century compilation of epic poetry, compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology, [1] telling an epic story about the Creation of the Earth, describing the controversies and retaliatory voyages between the peoples of the land of Kalevala called Väinölä and the land of Pohjola and their various protagonists ...
Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie is an epic poem by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, written in English and published in 1847. The poem follows an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel during the Expulsion of the Acadians (1755–1764). The idea for the poem came from Longfellow's friend Nathaniel ...