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Description. 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.
A heroic couplet is a traditional form for English poetry, commonly used in epic and narrative poetry, and consisting of a rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter.Use of the heroic couplet was pioneered by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Legend of Good Women and the Canterbury Tales, [1] and generally considered to have been perfected by John Dryden and Alexander Pope in the Restoration Age and ...
A limerick (/ ˈlɪmərɪk / LIM-ər-ik) [ 1 ] is a form of verse that appeared in England in the early years of the 18th century. [ 2 ] In combination with a refrain, it forms a limerick song, a traditional humorous drinking song often with obscene verses. It is written in five-line, predominantly anapestic and amphibrach [ 3 ] trimeter with a ...
Os Lusíadas (Portuguese pronunciation: [uʒ luˈzi.ɐðɐʃ]), usually translated as The Lusiads, is a Portuguese epic poem written by Luís Vaz de Camões [1] (c. 1524/5 – 1580) and first published in 1572. It is widely regarded as the most important work of Portuguese-language literature and is frequently compared to Virgil 's Aeneid (1st ...
A reading of "Fire and Ice". " Fire and Ice " is a short poem by Robert Frost that discusses the end of the world, likening the elemental force of fire with the emotion of desire, and ice with hate. It was first published in December 1920 in Harper's Magazine [1] and was later published in Frost's 1923 Pulitzer Prize -winning book New Hampshire.
North of Boston/After Apple-picking at Wikisource. " After Apple-Picking " is a poem by American poet Robert Frost. It was published in 1914 in North of Boston, Frost's second poetry collection. [1] The poem, 42 lines in length, does not strictly follow a particular form (instead consisting of mixed iambs), nor does it follow a standard rhyme ...
Appearance. The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie is the earliest surviving example [ 1 ] of the Scottish version of the flyting genre in poetry. The genre takes the form of a contest, or "war of words", [ 2 ] between two poets, each trying to outclass the other in vituperation and verbal pyrotechnics. It is not certain how the work was composed ...
Draft of Endymion by John Keats, c. 1818. Endymion is a poem by John Keats first published in 1818 by Taylor and Hessey of Fleet Street in London. John Keats dedicated this poem to the late poet Thomas Chatterton. The poem begins with the line "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever". Endymion is written in rhyming couplets in iambic pentameter ...