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  2. Lyric poetry - Wikipedia

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    Much lyric poetry depends on regular meter based either on syllable or on stress – two short syllables or one long syllable typically counting as equivalent – which is required for song lyrics in order to match lyrics with interchangeable tunes that followed a standard pattern of rhythm. Although much modern lyric poetry is no longer song ...

  3. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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    Lyric. Canzone: a lyric poem originating in medieval Italy and France and usually consisting of hendecasyllabic lines with end-rhyme. Epithalamium; Madrigal: a song or short lyric poem intended for multiple singers. Ode: a formal lyric poem that addresses, and typically celebrates, a person, place, thing, or idea. Horatian Ode

  4. Poetic devices - Wikipedia

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    Poetic Diction is a style of writing in poetry which encompasses vocabulary, phrasing, and grammatical usage. Along with syntax, poetic diction functions in the setting the tone, mood, and atmosphere of a poem to convey the poet's intention. Poetic devices shape a poem and its meanings.

  5. Lyric - Wikipedia

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    Lyric poetry is a form of poetry that expresses a subjective, personal point of view Lyric, from the Greek language, a song that is played with a lyre Lyric describes, in the classification of the human voice in European classical music, a specific vocal weight and a range at the upper end of the given voice part

  6. Lyric essay - Wikipedia

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    Lyric Essay is a literary hybrid that combines elements of poetry, essay, and memoir. [1] The lyric essay is a relatively new form of creative nonfiction. John D’Agata and Deborah Tall published a definition of the lyric essay in the Seneca Review in 1997: "The lyric essay takes from the prose poem in its density and shapeliness, its distillation of ideas and musicality of language."

  7. Poetry - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Poetic diction - Wikipedia

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    Poetic diction is the term used to refer to the linguistic style, the vocabulary, and the metaphors used in the writing of poetry.In the Western tradition, all these elements were thought of as properly different in poetry and prose up to the time of the Romantic revolution, when William Wordsworth challenged the distinction in his Romantic manifesto, the Preface to the second (1800) edition ...

  9. Lyricism - Wikipedia

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    The following are examples of lyricism: Architecture: The Nasir-ol-Molk Mosque may be seen as an example, as well as the Taj Mahal or the Sistine Chapel. Modern examples would be some of the later works of Le Corbusier [6] and Zaha Hadid. [8] Dance: Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake or The Sleeping Beauty exhibit classic lyricism.