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A quintain or pentastich is any poetic form containing five lines. Learn about different types of quintains, such as tanka, cinquain, quintilla, and limerick, and see examples from Shakespeare, Rossetti, and Gunn.
A limerick is a humorous verse of five lines with a strict rhyme scheme of AABBA and a twist or a punch line. Learn about the origin, history and variations of this popular form of poetry, and see examples by Edward Lear and others.
Cinquain is a term for various types of poems that have five lines, often with specific syllable or stress patterns. Learn about the history, variations and examples of cinquain, such as American cinquain, reverse cinquain, mirror cinquain and more.
A poem by Alfred Tennyson inspired by his trip to Spain and Greek mythology. It describes mariners who eat the lotos and escape from reality, but also face destruction and death.
A political analogy and form of economic satire to describe various systems of government. The joke is based on the assumption that the listener has two cows and what happens to them in different scenarios, such as socialism, fascism, capitalism, etc.
The recurring line is, "Quoth Wes Craven, let's make more!" [3] In the Donald Duck 10-pager "Raven Mad" by Carl Barks, published in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #265 in 1962, Huey, Dewey and Louie play with a raven who can only say "Nevermore." As in the poem, the raven often repeats the word throughout the story.
The novel, published in 1960, is a classic of modern American literature and a Pulitzer Prize winner. It features Atticus Finch, a lawyer and moral hero, who defends a black man falsely accused of rape in the racially segregated South.
A mock-heroic poem by Alexander Pope that satirises a trivial incident of a lock of hair being cut by a suitor. The poem features sylphs, a parody of the gods, and invokes the epic style of Homer.