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A Child's Garden of Verses is an 1885 volume of 64 poems for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. It has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions, and is considered to be one of the most influential children's works of the 19th century. [ 2 ]
A McWhirtle is a light verse form similar to a double dactyl, invented in 1989 by American poet Bruce Newling. McWhirtles share essentially the same form as double dactyls, but without the strict requirements, making them easier to write. Specifically: McWhirtles do not require a nonsense phrase (e.g., "Higgledy piggledy") on the first line.
J. Patrick Lewis (born May 5, 1942) is an American poet and prose writer noted for his children's poems and other light verse. [1] He worked as professor of economics from 1974-1998, after which he devoted himself full-time to writing.
Whole verse [8] Couplets are the most common type of rhyme scheme in old school rap [ 9 ] and are still regularly used, [ 4 ] though complex rhyme schemes have progressively become more frequent. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Rather than relying on end rhymes , rap rhyme schemes can have rhymes placed anywhere in the bars of music to create a structure. [ 12 ]
Greg Williamson (born 1964) is an American poet.He is most known for the invention of the "Double Exposure" form in which one poem can be read three different ways: solely the standard type, solely the bold type in alternating lines, or the combination of the two.
"Baseball's Sad Lexicon," also known as "Tinker to Evers to Chance" after its refrain, is a 1910 baseball poem by Franklin Pierce Adams. The eight-line poem is presented as a single, rueful stanza from the point of view of a New York Giants fan watching the Chicago Cubs infield of shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers, and first baseman Frank Chance complete a double play.
In verse scansion, the modern caesura mark is a double vertical bar || or ‖ , a variant of the single-bar virgula ("twig") used as a caesura mark in medieval manuscripts. [2] The same mark separately developed as the virgule, the single slash used to mark line breaks in poetry. [2]
Verses, Popular and Humorous (1900) was the second collection of poems by Australian poet Henry Lawson. It was released in hardback by Angus and Robertson publishers in 1900. [ 1 ] It features some of the poet's earlier major works, including "The Lights of Cobb and Co", " Saint Peter " and "The Grog-An'-Grumble-Steeplechase".