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  2. Lotus Sutra - Wikipedia

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    According to Lopez, Daosheng divided the sutra into three parts (omitting the Devadatta Chapter): "the first thirteen chapters demonstrate that the cause of the three vehicles becomes the cause of the one vehicle. The next eight chapters demonstrate that the effect of the three vehicles is also the effect of the one vehicle.

  3. Iambic pentameter - Wikipedia

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    In this version of the metre as in the poems above, each line has two halves: the first half has four syllables (sometimes 5), while the second half has seven (sometimes 6); in the first half there are two stresses and in the second half three. In some places the final weak vowel -e is ignored, e.g. nostr(e) emperere.

  4. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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    Stichic: a poem composed of lines of the same approximate meter and length, not broken into stanzas. Syllabic: a poem whose meter is determined by the total number of syllables per line, rather than the number of stresses. Tanka: a Japanese form of five lines with 5, 7, 5, 7, and 7 syllables—31 in all.

  5. Classical Chinese poetry forms - Wikipedia

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    Classical Chinese poetry forms are poetry forms or modes which typify the traditional Chinese poems written in Literary Chinese or Classical Chinese.Classical Chinese poetry has various characteristic forms, some attested to as early as the publication of the Classic of Poetry, dating from a traditionally, and roughly, estimated time of around 10th–7th century BCE.

  6. Number Pieces - Wikipedia

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    Twenty-Nine: 2 timpani, 2 percussionists, bowed piano, lower strings (0-10-8-6) December 1991 Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken and the Alte Oper This piece may be performed with Twenty-Six (Fifty-Five), Twenty-Eight (Fifty-Seven), or both (Eighty-Three). All time brackets contain a single sound. The first viola starts the videoclock ...

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  8. English literature - Wikipedia

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    English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world.The English language has developed over more than 1,400 years. [1] The earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the fifth century, are called Old English.

  9. Numeral prefix - Wikipedia

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    Words in the cardinal category are cardinal numbers, such as the English one, two, three, which name the count of items in a sequence. The multiple category are adverbial numbers, like the English once, twice, thrice, that specify the number of events or instances of otherwise identical or similar items.