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The epic forms trace back to the cantares de gesta (the Spanish equivalent of the French chansons de geste) and the lyric forms to the Provençal pastorela. In the Spanish Golden Age , however, which is when the term came into wide use, romance was not understood to be a metrical form, but a type of narration, that could be written in various ...
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This form of poetry was generally compilations of verses formed into books, also known as cancioneros. Main works include Cancionero de Baena , Cancionero de Estuniga , and Cancionero General . Other important works from this era include parts of Dance of Death , Dialogue Between Love and an Old Man , verses of Mingo Revulgo , and verses of the ...
Landay: a form of Afghani folk poetry that is composed as a couplet of 22 syllables. Mukhammas; Pantoum: a Malaysian verse form adapted by French poets comprising a series of quatrains, with the 2nd and 4th lines of each quatrain repeated as the 1st and 3rd lines of the next. The 2nd and 4th lines of the final stanza repeat the 1st and 3rd ...
The Martian poets were English poets of the 1970s and early 1980s, including Craig Raine and Christopher Reid. Through the heavy use of curious, exotic, and humorous metaphors, Martian poetry aimed to break the grip of "the familiar" in English poetry, by describing ordinary things as if through the eyes of a Martian.
The metre of most poetry of the Western world and elsewhere is based on patterns of syllables of particular types. The familiar type of metre in English-language poetry is called qualitative metre, with stressed syllables coming at regular intervals (e.g. in iambic pentameters, usually every even-numbered syllable).
Caribbean poetry generally refers to a myriad of poetic forms, spanning epic, lyrical verse, prose poems, dramatic poetry and oral poetry, composed in Caribbean territories regardless of language. It is most often, however, written in English, Spanish, Spanglish, French, Hindustani, Dutch, or any number of creoles.