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  2. Dramatic monologue - Wikipedia

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    Dramatic monologue is a type of poetry written in the form of a speech of an individual character. M.H. Abrams notes the following three features of the dramatic monologue as it applies to poetry: The single person, who is patently not the poet, utters the speech that makes up the whole of the poem, in a specific situation at a critical moment

  3. Narrative poetry - Wikipedia

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    It is normally dramatic, with various characters. [1] Narrative poems include all epic poetry, and the various types of "lay", [2] most ballads, and some idylls, as well as many poems not falling into a distinct type. Some narrative poetry takes the form of a novel in verse. An example of this is The Ring and the Book by Robert Browning.

  4. Persona poetry - Wikipedia

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    Dramatic monologues are a type of persona poem, because "as they must create a character, necessarily create a persona". [ 1 ] The editors of A Face to Meet the Faces: The Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry state that "The literary tradition of persona, of writing poems in voices or from perspectives other than the poet's own, is ancient ...

  5. My Last Duchess - Wikipedia

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    Lucrezia de' Medici by Bronzino or Alessandro Allori, generally believed to be the subject of the poem "My Last Duchess" is a poem by Robert Browning, frequently anthologised as an example of the dramatic monologue. It first appeared in 1842 in Browning's Dramatic Lyrics. [1] The poem is composed in 28 rhyming couplets of iambic pentameter ...

  6. Dramatis Personæ (poetry collection) - Wikipedia

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    The poems in Dramatis Personae are dramatic, with a wide range of narrators. The narrator is usually in a situation that reveals to the reader some aspect of his personality. Instead of speeches that are intended for others' ears, most are soliloquies.

  7. List of epic poems - Wikipedia

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    Carmen Campidoctoris, the first poem about El Cid (c. 1083) Song of Armouris (Byzantine, acritic song) Borzu Nama, ascribed to 'Amid Abu'l 'Ala' 'Ata b. Yaqub Kateb Razi (Persian epic with a main character and a poetic style related to the "Shahnameh") Faramarz Nama (Persian epic with a main character and a poetic style related to the "Shahnameh")

  8. Heroic couplet - Wikipedia

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    A heroic couplet is a traditional form for English poetry, commonly used in epic and narrative poetry, and consisting of a rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter.Use of the heroic couplet was pioneered by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Legend of Good Women and the Canterbury Tales, [1] and generally considered to have been perfected by John Dryden and Alexander Pope in the Restoration Age and ...

  9. Poetics (Aristotle) - Wikipedia

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    Aristotle divides the art of poetry into verse drama (comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play), lyric poetry, and epic. The genres all share the function of mimesis, or imitation of life, but differ in three ways that Aristotle describes: Differences in music rhythm, harmony, meter, and melody. Difference of goodness in the characters.