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  2. Literary consonance - Wikipedia

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    An example is the verse from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven": "And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain." (This example also contains assonance around the "ur" sound.) Another example of consonance is the word "sibilance" itself. Consonance is an element of half-rhyme poetic format, sometimes called "slant rhyme".

  3. Quqnūs - Wikipedia

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    The imaginary building is his future poetry and style. The fire of a rural man (he also reminds Nima himself) is his wishes and hopes. [10] The first lines of “Quqnūs” show Nima's intervention on premodern Persian poetic form and give an early example of the style he would later outline in his comments to the Writer's Congress.

  4. And did those feet in ancient time - Wikipedia

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    Instead, the poem draws on an older story, repeated in Milton's History of Britain, that Joseph of Arimathea, alone, travelled to preach to the ancient Britons after the death of Jesus. [4] The poem's theme is linked to the Book of Revelation (3:12 and 21:2) describing a Second Coming, wherein Jesus establishes a New Jerusalem.

  5. Dissonance - Wikipedia

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    Cultural dissonance is an uncomfortable sense experienced by people in the midst of change in their cultural environment. Consonance and dissonance in music are properties of an interval or chord (the quality of a discord) Dissonance in poetry is the deliberate avoidance of assonance, i.e. patterns of repeated vowel sounds. Dissonance in poetry ...

  6. Consonance and dissonance - Wikipedia

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    The opposition between consonance and dissonance can be made in different contexts: In acoustics or psychophysiology, the distinction may be objective.In modern times, it usually is based on the perception of harmonic partials of the sounds considered, to such an extent that the distinction really holds only in the case of harmonic sounds (i.e. sounds with harmonic partials).

  7. Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art - Wikipedia

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    It was named Bright Star after this poem, which is recited multiple times in the film. In the Covert Affairs episode "Speed of Life" (Season 3, Episode 4) the character Simon Fischer admits to Annie Walker that the tattoo on his upper left shoulder blade of Ursa Minor was inspired by John Keats's poem. Although she asks him, Simon doesn't tell ...

  8. Phonaesthetics - Wikipedia

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    Phonaesthetics (also spelled phonesthetics in North America) is the study of the beauty and pleasantness associated with the sounds of certain words or parts of words.The term was first used in this sense, perhaps by J. R. R. Tolkien, [1] during the mid-20th century and derives from Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ) 'voice, sound' and αἰσθητική (aisthētikḗ) 'aesthetics'.

  9. Vier Lieder (Schoenberg) - Wikipedia

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    Vier Lieder, Op. 2, is a song cycle composed by Arnold Schoenberg in 1899 and 1900, during his early development. In contrast to his earlier songs, influenced by Richard Wagner and Johannes Brahms among others, these four songs use a fair amount of the dissonance and atonality that Schoenberg is known for.