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2. Thousand Character Classic - Wikipedia

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   The Thousand Character Classic (Chinese: 千字文; pinyin: Qiānzì wén), also known as the Thousand Character Text, is a Chinese poem that has been used as a primer for teaching Chinese characters to children from the sixth century onward. It contains exactly one thousand characters, each used only once, arranged into 250 lines of four ...

3. Free verse - Wikipedia

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   Is 5 by E. E. Cummings, an example of free verse. Free verse is an open form of poetry which does not use a prescribed or regular meter or rhyme [1] and tends to follow the rhythm of natural or irregular speech. Free verse encompasses a large range of poetic form, and the distinction between free verse and other forms (such as prose) is often ...

4. Children's poetry - Wikipedia

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   Les Contenances de la Table, published in 1487, is a French example; [1] The Babee's Boke and Queen Elizabethe's Academy are both English examples, printed in the 1500s. [ 5 ] The first children's book printed in the New World was John Cotton 's Milk for Babes, Drawn out of the Breasts of Both Testaments, Chiefly for the Spiritual Nourishment ...

5. Charles Causley - Wikipedia

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   Poetry (ballads, other formal poetic structures and free verse; also, children's poetry); short plays, including for radio; libretti; short stories; essays and criticism. Notable works Collected Poems, 1951–1997; Collected Poems for Children; individual poems including 'Timothy Winters', 'Eden Rock' and many more

6. Poetry analysis - Wikipedia

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   The words poem and poetry derive from the Greek poiēma (to make) and poieo (to create). One might think of a poem as, in the words of William Carlos Williams, [2] a "machine made of words." [3] A reader analyzing a poem is akin to a mechanic taking apart a machine in order to figure out how it works. There are many different reasons to analyze ...

7. Cinquain - Wikipedia

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   Ordinarily, the first line is a one-word title, the subject of the poem; the second line is a pair of adjectives describing that title; the third line is a three-word phrase that gives more information about the subject (often a list of three gerunds); the fourth line consists of four words describing feelings related to that subject; and the ...

8. The Lamplighter (poem) - Wikipedia

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   The Lamplighter is a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson contained in his 1885 collection A Child's Garden of Verses. This poem may be autobiographical. Stevenson was sickly growing up (probably tuberculosis), thus "when I am stronger" may refer to his hope of recovery. Further, his illness isolated him, so the loneliness expressed in the poem would ...

9. Quintain (poetry) - Wikipedia

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   1 Examples. Toggle Examples subsection. 1.1 Sonnet 99 (first stanza) ... List and description of five-line poetry forms This page was last edited on 19 September 2024 ...