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A sestain is a six-line poem or repetitive unit of a poem of this format , comparable to quatrain (Ruba'i in Persian and Arabic) which is a four-line poem or a unit of a poem. There are many types of sestain with different rhyme schemes , for example AABBCC, ABABCC, AABCCB or AAABAB. [ 1 ]
The following is a sample from the cento Sacra Aeneis (1618), by Etienne de Pleure, on the adoration of the Magi.The lines of Vergil used, from his Aeneid and Georgics, are indicated on the left (e.g. 6.255 points to book 6, line 255); or, if changed in the middle of a line, an asterisk separates the new quotation with its source indicated on the right.
It can be long or short, light or serious. This is merely an exercise, like taking your imagination out for a walk. Sometimes it’s all it takes to start finding those ideas.
Paris: A Poem is a long poem by Hope Mirrlees, described as "modernism's lost masterpiece" by critic Julia Briggs. [1] Mirrlees wrote the six-hundred-line poem in spring 1919. Although the title page of the first edition mistakenly has the year 1919, it was first published in 1920 by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press .
Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl is a long narrative poem by American poet John Greenleaf Whittier first published in 1866. The poem, presented as a series of stories told by a family amid a snowstorm, was extremely successful and popular in its time. The poem depicts a peaceful return to idealistic domesticity and rural life after the American Civil War.
"Drifter": A short poem on unanswered questions with hidden meaning, such as “why rain falls, what makes corn proud and squash so humble." [2] "The Perceiving Self" (Written in Fort Scott, Kansas): A detailed description of the sighting of George Carver. Carver, “the music shaped and colored by brown lips, white teeth, pink tongue." [2]
Enjambment: incomplete syntax at the end of a line; the meaning runs over from one poetic line to the next, without terminal punctuation. Epigraph: a quotation from another literary work that is placed under the title at the beginning of a poem or section of a poem. Hemistich: a half of a line of verse.
"In Blackwater Woods" is a free verse poem with 9 stanzas. The first 8 stanzas all consist of 4 lines each, and the 9th stanza consists of five lines. Oliver favors short lines in this poem, mimicking the silence and blank space that must be allowed for when paying attention to the world or being introspective. [3]