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  2. Poetic devices - Wikipedia

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    Appearance. Poetic devices are a form of literary device used in poetry. Poems are created out of poetic devices via a composite of: structural, grammatical, rhythmic, metrical, verbal, and visual elements. [ 1 ] They are essential tools that a poet uses to create rhythm, enhance a poem's meaning, or intensify a mood or feeling.

  3. Jazz Chants - Wikipedia

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    Jazz Chant is a rhythmic expression of natural language which links the rhythms of spoken American English to the rhythms of traditional American jazz. Jazz Chants are defined poems with repeated beats. The beat may vary depending on the idea of the reader. [citation needed]

  4. Poetry - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic [1][2][3] qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings. Any particular instance of poetry is called a poem and is written by a poet.

  5. Theory of Literature - Wikipedia

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    Theory of Literature is a book on literary scholarship by René Wellek, of the structuralist Prague school, and Austin Warren, a self-described "old New Critic ". [ 1 ] The two met at the University of Iowa in the late 1930s, and by 1940 had begun writing the book; they wrote collaboratively, in a single voice over a period of three years.

  6. Metre (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    Metre (poetry) Appearance. ····() () In poetry, metre (Commonwealth spelling) or meter (American spelling; see spelling differences) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse. Many traditional verse forms prescribe a specific verse metre, or a certain set of metres alternating in a particular order.

  7. Rhythm - Wikipedia

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    In the performance arts, rhythm is the timing of events on a human scale; of musical sounds and silences that occur over time, of the steps of a dance, or the meter of spoken language and poetry. In some performing arts, such as hip hop music, the rhythmic delivery of the lyrics is one of the most important elements of the style.

  8. Dactylic hexameter - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Dactylic hexameter (also known as heroic hexameter and the meter of epic) is a form of meter or rhythmic scheme frequently used in Ancient Greek and Latin poetry. The scheme of the hexameter is usually as follows (writing – for a long syllable, u for a short, and u u for a position that may be a long or two shorts): | – u u | – u ...

  9. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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    Acephalous line: a line lacking the first element. Line: a unit into which a poem is divided. Line break: the termination of the line of a poem and the beginning of a new line. Metre (or meter): the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse. Metres are influenced by syllables and their "weight".