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  2. Cleopatra (The Lumineers song) - Wikipedia

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    Cleopatra" reached number one on Billboard's Alternative Airplay chart, and reached number three on the Mainstream Rock chart. [ 11 ] Renowned for Sound dubbed "Cleopatra" a suitably named titular track, writing that it was the "perfect taste of the material" on the album "with its slow building beat, infectious chorus and an intriguing tale ...

  3. Sir Patrick Spens - Wikipedia

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    Louis MacNeice’s poem ‘’The North Sea’’ (1948) recounts a voyage to Norway and includes many references to Sir Patrick Spens. In Euphoria by author Lily King the lead characters Nell and Bankston, fictionalized versions of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson recite part of the poem, alternating the opening lines, during a tense night ...

  4. La Cleopatra (poem) - Wikipedia

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    La Cleopatra is an epic poem in 13 songs by Girolamo Graziani (1604–1674). The work was very successful at the time and was praised by many famous writers, including Fulvio Testi . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]

  5. Ballad - Wikipedia

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    Maria Wiik, Ballad (1898) A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of Great Britain and Ireland from the Late Middle Ages until the 19th century. They were widely used across Europe, and later in Australia, North Africa, North America and South America.

  6. List of symphonic poems - Wikipedia

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    Northern Ballad No. 1 (1927) Northern Ballad No. 2 ... (The dream of Cleopatra, published in 2018) Hjalmar Borgstrøm ... Lyric poem "To the Memory of Gliere ...

  7. List of epic poems - Wikipedia

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    An Idyl of the South: An Epic Poem in Two Parts by Albery Allson Whitman (1901) Lahuta e Malcís by Gjergj Fishta (composed 1902–1937) Ural-batyr (Bashkirs oral tradition set in the written form by Mukhamedsha Burangulov in 1910) The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. Chesterton (1911) Mensagem by Fernando Pessoa (composed 1913–1934)

  8. The Legend of Good Women - Wikipedia

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    The Legend of Good Women is a poem in the form of a dream vision by Geoffrey Chaucer during the fourteenth century.. The poem is the third longest of Chaucer's works, after The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde, and is possibly the first significant work in English to use the iambic pentameter or decasyllabic couplets which he later used throughout The Canterbury Tales.

  9. 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 ...