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  2. Poetry - Wikipedia

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    Feud. Estate. Literature portal. v. t. e. Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic [1][2][3] qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings. Any particular instance of poetry is called a poem and is written by a poet.

  3. Metre (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    Metre (poetry) 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. The study and the actual use of metres and forms ...

  4. List of epic poems - Wikipedia

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    Khun Chang Khun Phaen, a Thai poem. Klei Khan Y Dam San, a Vietnamese poem. Koti and Chennayya and Epic of Siri, Tulu poems. Kutune Shirka, sacred yukar epic of the Ainu people of which several translations exist. Lay of Mouse-fate (Musurdvitha), a fantasy epic inspired by animal fable and Arthurian legend.

  5. Cinquain - Wikipedia

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    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. a series of six cinquains in which the last is formed of lines from the preceding five, typically line one from stanza one, line two from ...

  6. Elegy - Wikipedia

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    An elegy is a poem of serious reflection, and in English literature usually a lament for the dead. However, according to The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy, "for all of its pervasiveness ... the 'elegy' remains remarkably ill defined: sometimes used as a catch-all to denominate texts of a somber or pessimistic tone, sometimes as a marker for textual monumentalizing, and sometimes strictly as a ...

  7. Poetic devices - Wikipedia

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    Poetic devices. 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.

  8. Category:Genres of poetry - Wikipedia

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    Poetry movements‎ (8 C, 77 P) N. Narrative poems‎ (8 C, 106 P) Nonsense poetry‎ (1 C, 19 P) Nursery rhymes‎ (15 C, 12 P) O. Occitan literary genres‎ (23 P) R.

  9. 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.

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