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A diamante poem is a poem that makes the shape of a diamond. The poem can be used in two ways, either comparing and contrasting two different subjects, or naming synonyms at the beginning of the poem and then antonyms for the second half for a subject. In the poems, the subject is named in one word in the first line.
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Poems of Ossian by James Macpherson (1760–1765) The Seasons by Kristijonas Donelaitis (1765–1775) O Uraguai by Basílio da Gama (1769) Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire by Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill (1773) O Desertor das Letras by Silva Alvarenga (1774), a short mock-heroic epic; Caramuru by Santa Rita Durão (1781) Joan of Arc by Robert Southey ...
A metrical foot (aka poetic foot) is the basic repeating rhythmic unit that forms part of a line of verse in most Indo-European traditions of poetry.. In some metres (such as the iambic trimeter) the lines are divided into double feet, called metra (singular: metron).
Often, the poet is also paying homage to the ancestors of audience members. Examples: In The Faerie Queene, the list of trees I.i.8–9. In Paradise Lost, the list of demons in Book I. [20] In the Aeneid, the list of enemies the Trojans find in Etruria (Central Italy) in Book VII. Also, the list of ships in Book X. [21]
Instead, they composed brief, highly polished poems in various thematic and metrical genres. The Roman love elegies of Tibullus , Propertius , and Ovid ( Amores , Heroides ), with their personal phrasing and feeling, may be the thematic ancestor of much medieval, Renaissance, Romantic, and modern lyric poetry, but these works were composed in ...
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Other poems may be organized into verse paragraphs, in which regular rhymes with established rhythms are not used, but the poetic tone is instead established by a collection of rhythms, alliterations, and rhymes established in paragraph form. [92] Many medieval poems were written in verse paragraphs, even where regular rhymes and rhythms were used.