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  • 41Chinese poetry — Quatrain on Heavenly Mountain by Emperor Gaozong Chinese poetry is poetry written, spoken, or chanted in the Chinese language, which includes various versions of Chinese language, including Classical Chinese, Standard Chinese, Mandarin Chinese,… …

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  • 42alliterative verse —    All poetry written in Old Germanic languages uses a system of alliterative verse, the best examples of which can be found in the OLD ENGLISH poetic corpus. This form of meter doubtlessly originates among oral poets or SCOPS, who would have… …

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  • 43Syllabic verse — is a poetic form having a fixed number of syllables per line or stanza regardless of the number of stresses that are present. It is common in languages that are syllable timed such as Japanese or modern French or Finnish, as opposed to accentual… …

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  • 44List of poetry anthologies — This is a list of anthologies of poetry.A C*Anthology of Twentieth Century British and Irish Poetry *American Poetry Since 1950 *Book of Aneirin (c. 1265) Welsh medieval manuscript *Best American Poetry series (with links to articles on annual… …

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  • 45free verse — free versifier /free verr seuh fuy euhr/, n. Prosody. verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern. [1905 10] * * * Poetry organized according to the cadences of speech and image patterns rather than according to a regular metrical scheme …

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  • 46heroic verse — a form of verse adapted to the treatment of heroic or exalted themes: in classical poetry, dactylic hexameter; in English and German, iambic pentameter; and in French, the Alexandrine. An example of heroic verse is Achilles wrath, to Greece the… …

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  • 47Diwan (poetry) — Diwan (Arabic: ديوان, Diwan‎) (Persian: ديوان, Divan) is a collection of poems. Contents 1 Etymology 2 Mode 3 Urdu variation of Diwan …

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  • 48Alcmanian verse — is a verse in poetry written in dactylic tetrameter. It can also be used to describe a couplet written in dactylic hexameter.1 This is also referred to as Heroic Verse. The Roman poet, Horace, is most commonly attributed to this version. While… …

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  • 49accentual verse — ▪ prosody       in prosody, a metrical system based only on the number of stresses or accented syllables in a line of verse. In accentual verse the total number of syllables in a line can vary as long as there are the prescribed number of accents …

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  • 501976 in poetry — yearbox2 in?=in poetry in2?=in literature cp=19th century c=20th century cf=21st century yp1=1973 yp2=1974 yp3=1975 year=1976 ya1=1977 ya2=1978 ya3=1979 dp3=1940s dp2=1950s dp1=1960s d=1970s da=0 dn1=1980s dn2=1990s dn3=2000s|Events* Two poems… …

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