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  2. Blank verse - Wikipedia

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    Tennyson's blank verse in poems like "Ulysses" and "The Princess" is musical and regular; his lyric "Tears, Idle Tears" is probably the first important example of the blank verse stanzaic poem. Browning's blank verse, in poems like "Fra Lippo Lippi", is more abrupt and conversational. Gilbert and Sullivan's 1884 opera, Princess Ida, is based on ...

  3. Free verse - Wikipedia

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    A clear example of this can be found in Walt Whitman's poems, where he repeats certain phrases and uses commas to create both a rhythm and structure. Pattern and discipline are to be found in good free verse: the internal pattern of sounds, the choice of exact words, and the effect of associations give free verse its beauty. [ 40 ]

  4. Stichic - Wikipedia

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    Most poetry from the Old English period is considered stichic. Most English poetry written in blank verse, such as the epic Paradise Lost by John Milton, is stichic. A more contemporary example is Joanna Baillie's "Hay making" [1] [2] [3] 1979 Greek epic, in dactylic hexameter, as is Latin epic whether in hexameter or (in very old poets) Saturnian.

  5. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - Wikipedia

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    The poem is written in iambic tetrameter in the Rubaiyat stanza created by Edward FitzGerald, who adopted the style from Hakim Omar Khayyam, the 12th-century Persian poet and mathematician. Each verse (save the last) follows an AABA rhyming scheme , with the following verse's A line rhyming with that verse's B line, which is a chain rhyme ...

  6. There once was a man from Nantucket - Wikipedia

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    The poem has become a staple of American humor.It is often used as a joking example of fine art, with the vulgarity providing a surprising contrast to an expected refinement, such as in the 2002 film Solaris, when George Clooney's character mentions that his favorite poem is the most famous poem by Dylan Thomas that starts with "There was a young man from Nantucket"; or Will & Grace season 8 ...

  7. Stanza - Wikipedia

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    In poetry, a stanza (/ ˈ s t æ n z ə /; from Italian stanza, Italian:; lit. ' room ') is a group of lines within a poem, usually set off from others by a blank line or indentation. [1] Stanzas can have regular rhyme and metrical schemes, but they are not required to have either. There are many different forms of stanzas.

  8. Shakespeare's writing style - Wikipedia

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    Shakespeare's standard poetic form was blank verse, composed in iambic pentameter with clever use of puns and imagery. In practice, this meant that his verse was usually unrhymed and consisted of ten syllables to a line, spoken with a stress on every second syllable. The blank verse of his early plays is quite different from that of his later ones.

  9. Verse (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    Blank verse is poetry written in regular, metrical, but unrhymed, lines, almost always composed of iambic pentameters. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit