iambic
71Metre — Meter Me ter, Metre Me tre, n. [OE. metre, F. m[ e]tre, L. metrum, fr. Gr. ?; akin to Skr. m[=a] to measure. See {Mete} to measure.] 1. Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending …
72Short meter — Meter Me ter, Metre Me tre, n. [OE. metre, F. m[ e]tre, L. metrum, fr. Gr. ?; akin to Skr. m[=a] to measure. See {Mete} to measure.] 1. Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending …
73Alexandrine — An alexandrine is a line of poetic meter comprising 12 syllables. Alexandrines are common in the German literature of the Baroque period and in French poetry of the early modern and modern periods. Drama in English often used alexandrines before… …
74Sonnet — The sonnet is one of the poetic forms that can be found in lyric poetry from Europe. The term sonnet derives from the Occitan word sonet and the Italian word sonetto , both meaning little song. By the thirteenth century, it had come to signify a… …
75Anapaest — An anapaest or anapest, also called antidactylus, is a metrical foot used in formal poetry. In classical quantitative meters it consists of two short syllables followed by a long one (as in a na paest); in accentual stress meters it consists of… …
76Shakespeare's sonnets —   …
77There Will Come Soft Rains — is a 12 line poem by Sara Teasdale written in 1920. The subject of the poem imagines nature reclaiming the earth after humanity has been wiped out by a war (line 7) The voice of the poem speaks definitely, the way in which the poet imagines how… …
78Onegin stanza — (sometimes Pushkin sonnet [1]) refers to the verse form invented by Alexander Pushkin for his interpersonal epic Eugene Onegin. The work is (almost wholly) written in verses of iambic tetrameter with the unusual rhyme scheme aBaBccDDeFFeGG ,… …
79Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen — ( Hell s vengeance boils in my heart ) is the second aria sung by a coloratura soprano role Queen of the Night in Mozart s opera The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte). Contents 1 The aria 2 Music 3 Lyrics …
80Semonides — (or Semontoes) of Amorgos was an ancient Greek iambic poet who flourished in the middle of the 7th century BC. He was a native of Samos, and derived his surname from having founded a colony in the neighbouring island of Amorgos.According to the… …
