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May EXIST idô dog (a)ko 1SG May idô (a)ko EXIST dog 1SG I have a dog. Hiligaynon linkers When an adjective modifies a noun, the linker nga links the two. Example: Ido nga itom 'black dog' Sometimes, if the linker is preceded by a word that ends in a vowel, glottal stop or the letter N, it becomes acceptable to contract it into -ng, as in Filipino. This is often used to make the words sound ...
Mathnawi (Arabic: مثنوي, mathnawī) or masnavi (Persian: مثنوی, mas̲navī) is a kind of poem written in rhyming couplets, or more specifically "a poem based on independent, internally rhyming lines". Most mathnawī poems follow a meter of eleven, or occasionally ten, syllables, but had no limit in their length. [1]
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The awit (Tagalog for "song" [1]) is a type of Filipino poem, consisting of 12-syllable quatrains. It follows the pattern of rhyming stanzas [which?] established in the Philippine epic Pasyon. It is similar in form to the corrido. [2] One influential work in the awit form is Florante at Laura, an 1838 narrative poem by Francisco Balagtas. [3]
A sestain is a six-line poem or repetitive unit of a poem of this format , comparable to quatrain (Ruba'i in Persian and Arabic) which is a four-line poem or a unit of a poem. There are many types of sestain with different rhyme schemes , for example AABBCC, ABABCC, AABCCB or AAABAB. [ 1 ]
The term can refer to poems of an oral tradition that may date back many years; [2] that is, it is information that has been transmitted over time (between generations) only in spoken (and non-written) form. [3] Thus as an oral tradition folk poetry requires a performer to promulgate it over generations. [4]
Three of the best-known poems in the collection are "Praise for Creation and Providence", "Against Idleness and Mischief", and "The Sluggard". [3] "Praise for Creation and Providence" (better known as "I sing the mighty power of God") is now a hymn sung by all ages. [4] "Against Idleness and Mischief" and "The Sluggard" (better known as "How ...
Pantun is a disjunctive form of poetry which always come in two parts, the first part being the prefatory statement called pembayang or sampiran that has no immediate logical or the narrative connection with the second or closing statement called maksud or isi.