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Sonnet 116 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet.The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet.It follows the typical rhyme scheme of the form abab cdcd efef gg and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions.
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
How Many Bards Gild the Lapses of Time! (1815) On First Looking into Chapman's Homer (1815) Nebuchadnezzar's Dream (1815) To G. A. W. (Georgiana Augusta Wylie) (1816) As from the Darkening Gloom a Silver Dove (1816) On a Picture of Leander (1816) Oh! How I Love, on a Fair Summer's Eve (1816) O Solitude! If I Must with thee Dwell (1816)
Ars Poetica: a poem that explains the 'art of poetry', or a meditation on poetry using the form and techniques of a poem. [1] Aubade: a love poem welcoming or lamenting the arrival of the dawn. Example: “The Sun Rising” by John Donne. [1] Deep image; Didactic; Dramatic monologue
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” ― Andy Warhol, “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol” ... “I don’t know that love changes. People ...
The turn in poetry has gone by many names. In "The Poem in Countermotion", the final chapter of How Does a Poem Mean?, John Ciardi speaks thus of the "fulcrum" in relation to the non-sonnet poem "O western wind" (O Western Wind/when wilt thou blow/The small rain down can rain//Christ! my love were in my arms/and I in my bed again): 'The first two lines are a cry of anguish to the western wind ...
These are the best funny quotes to make you laugh about life, aging, family, work, and even nature. Enjoy quips from comedy greats like Bob Hope, Robin Williams, and more.
All you need is love [7] All is fair in love and war; All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds; All is well that ends well; An apple a day keeps the doctor away; An army marches on its stomach; An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth