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121Science Verse — Infobox Book name = Science Verse title orig = translator = author = Jon Scieszka Lane Smith cover artist = Lane Smith country = United States language = English series = subject = Science genre = Children s books Picture books publisher = Viking …
122ci (tz’u) poetry — The term ci (or tz’u) meant “song lyric.” Ci poetry was a form of Chinese verse in which a poet composed a lyric poem that could be sung to a popular melody. It was a form that had its origin in popular music, but developed into a vehicle for… …
123Limerick (poetry) — A limerick is a five line poem with a strict form, originally popularized in English by Edward Lear. Limericks are frequently witty or humorous, and sometimes obscene with humorous intent.The following example of a limerick is of anonymous origin …
124Asclepiad (poetry) — An asclepiad is a line of poetry following a particular metrical pattern. The form is attributed to Asclepiades of Samos and is one of the Aeolic metres. As with other Aeolic metrical lines, the asclepiad is built around a choriamb, to which one… …
125echo verse — ▪ literature a type of verse in which repetition of the end of a line or stanza imitates an echo. The repetition usually constitutes the entire following line and changes the meaning of the part being repeated. This device was popular in… …
126heroic verse — noun Date: 1586 1. dactylic hexameter especially of epic verse of classical times called also heroic meter 2. the iambic pentameter used especially in English epic poetry during the 17th and 18th centuries called also heroic line, heroic meter …
127Octave (poetry) — For other uses, see Octave (disambiguation). An octave is a verse form consisting of eight lines of iambic pentameter (in English) or of hendecasyllables (in Italian). The most common rhyme scheme for an octave is abba abba. An octave is the… …
128Juvenile Works: Poetry — HPL’s earliest surviving work is a poem: “The Poem of Ulysses: Written for Young People.” The extant manuscript is labeled a “second edition” and dated to November 8, 1897; the first edition presumably dates prior to August 20, 1897, since HPL …
