enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_poetry_terms

    Rondel (or roundel): a poem of 11 to 14 lines consisting of 2 rhymes and the repetition of the first 2 lines in the middle of the poem and at its end. Sonnet: a poem of 14 lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes; in English, they typically have 10 syllables per line. Caudate sonnet; Crown of sonnets (aka sonnet redoublé) Curtal sonnet

  3. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Love_Song_of_J._Alfred...

    Like many of Eliot's poems, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" makes numerous allusions to other works, which are often symbolic themselves. In "Time for all the works and days of hands" (29) Works and Days is the title of a long poem – a description of agricultural life and a call to toil – by the early Greek poet Hesiod. [27]

  4. Time's Paces - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time's_Paces

    Time's Paces is a poem about the apparent speeding up of time as one gets older. It was written by Henry Twells (1823–1900) and published in his book Hymns and Other Stray Verses (1901). The poem was popularised by Guy Pentreath (1902–1985) in an amended version.

  5. Poetry from Daily Life: Stumped for ideas? Start your poem ...

    www.aol.com/poetry-daily-life-stumped-ideas...

    He has three new titles due out this fall: "Wild Brunch, Poems About How Animals Eat"; "A Tree is a Community"; and "The fluency development lesson: Closing the reading gap."

  6. Leisure (poem) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisure_(poem)

    The poem is written as a set of seven rhyming couplets. What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass. No time to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars, like skies ...

  7. History of poetry - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_poetry

    Lyric poetry is very similar to songs / song lyrics. They could have as many stanzas as they wanted, which was different to different forms of poetry at the time. There were no real regulations to this new form of poetry, which was invented by Sir Robert Cite in 1789. This form of poetry is known for being the quickest growing type of the past ...

  8. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rime_of_the_Ancient...

    The poem received mixed reviews from critics, and Coleridge was once told by the publisher that most of the book's sales were to sailors who thought it was a naval songbook. Coleridge made several modifications to the poem over the years. In the second edition of Lyrical Ballads, published in 1800, he replaced many of the archaic words.

  9. Tautogram - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautogram

    Out of these three, a total of 7,000 words have been used in the first, 10,000 words in the second and about 10,000 words in the third and each word begins with the same letter. [2] [3] [4] This is the single and larger effort of tautogram in Bengali literature. An example of a tautogram in Bengali is a story with all words starting with "K" :