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"Leisure" is a poem by Welsh poet W. H. Davies, appearing originally in his Songs of Joy and Others, published in 1911 by A. C. Fifield and then in Davies' first anthology Collected Poems by the same publisher in 1916.
Poetic contractions are contractions of words found in poetry but not commonly used in everyday modern English. Also known as elision or syncope, these contractions are usually used to lower the number of syllables in a particular word in order to adhere to the meter of a composition. [1]
Acrostic: a poem in which the first letter of each line spells out a word, name, or phrase when read vertically. Example: “ A Boat beneath a Sunny Sky ” by Lewis Carroll. Concrete (aka pattern): a written poem or verse whose lines are arranged as a shape/visual image, usually of the topic.
Leisure (UK: / ˈ l ɛ ʒ ə r /, US: / ˈ l iː-/) [1] [2] has often been defined as a quality of experience or as free time. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Free time is time spent away from business , work , job hunting , domestic chores , and education , as well as necessary activities such as eating and sleeping .
The refrain must be identical with the beginning of the first line: it may be a half-line, and rhymes with the second line. It has three stanzas and its rhyme scheme is as follows: A B A R ; B A B ; A B A R ; where R is the refrain. Swinburne had published a book A Century of Roundels. [1]
The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABBA ABBA CDCD CD. This Italian or Petrarchan sonnet uses the last six lines to answer the first eight lines (octave). The octave is the problems and the sestet is the solutions.
His works [7] include Poetry from Leeds in 1968, Rough Passage published [8] by Oxford University Press in 1977, a long poem ( Preface "a book where all poems form part of a single poem, as it were" – R. Parthasarathy) and Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets, edited by him and published by Oxford University Press in 1976.
Gedichte ohne den Buchstaben R., Berlin, 1796. Gottlob Wilhelm Burmann (18 May 1737 in Lauban – 5 January 1805) was a German Romantic poet and lipogrammatist.He is best known for his dislike of the letter R.