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Both lines of the matla ' and the second lines of all subsequent shers must end in the same refrain word called the radif. Qafiya: The rhyming pattern. The radif is immediately preceded by words or phrases with the same end rhyme pattern, called the qafiya. Maqta': The last couplet of the ghazal is called the maqta '.
Since the mid-twentieth century, some prolific mantinada composers have regionally published their mantinadas, much like other books of poetry. [2] Some mantinadas are excerpted as stand-alone rhyming couplets from longer poems, particularly the Erotokritos, an epic poem that is a staple of Cretan Renaissance literature.
Folio 129r of the early eleventh-century Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hatton 43, showing a page of Bede's Latin text, with Cædmon's Hymn added in the lower margin. Cædmon's Hymn is a short Old English poem attributed to Cædmon, a supposedly illiterate and unmusical cow-herder who was, according to the Northumbrian monk Bede (d. 735), miraculously empowered to sing in honour of God the Creator.
Chad Gadya or Had Gadya (Aramaic: חַד גַדְיָא chad gadya, "one little goat", or "one kid"; Hebrew: "גדי אחד gedi echad") is a playful cumulative song in Aramaic and Hebrew. [1] It is sung at the end of the Passover Seder , the Jewish ritual feast that marks the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Passover .
This rhyme scheme was extremely popular in French poetry. It was used by Victor Hugo and Charles Leconte de Lisle. In English it is called the tail-rhyme stanza. [2] Bob Dylan uses it in several songs, including the A-strains of You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go and the B-strains of Key West (Philosopher Pirate).
The first, usually called "The Fox and the Goose", goes as follows: "Pax uobis," [a] quod the ffox, "for I am comyn to toowne." It fell ageyns the next nyght the fox yede to with all his myghte, with-outen cole or candelight, whan that he cam vnto the toowne. Whan he cam all in the yarde, soore te geys wer ill a-ferde. "I shall macke some of ...
"Mysterious Ways" is played in a 4/4 time signature at a tempo of 99 beats per minute. [11] The introduction to the song, which features the song's well-known guitar hook, consists of "one seventh-fret barre chord, a couple of rhythmic scratches and two notes" played in a key of B ♭. [12]
Each stanza consists of three alternate rhymes and one double rhyme, following the ABABABCC rhyme scheme. The form is similar to the older Sicilian octave , but evolved separately and is unrelated. The Sicilian octave is derived from the medieval strambotto and was a crucial step in the development of the sonnet , whereas the ottava rima is ...