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Poetry - Form, Rhyme, Meter | Britannica American poet Robert Frost said shrewdly that poetry was what got left behind in translation, which suggests a criterion of almost scientific refinement: when in doubt, translate; whatever comes through is prose, the remainder is poetry
poetry - Kids | Britannica Kids | Homework Help Poetry is a type of literature, or artistic writing, that attempts to stir a reader’s imagination or emotions The poet does this by carefully choosing and arranging language for its meaning, sound, and rhythm
Stanza | Poetry, Verse, Rhyme | Britannica Generally speaking, however, poetry is a type of artistic literature that involves using language, sound, and rhythm to stir the reader’s or listener’s imagination and provoke an emotional response
Metre | Definition, Types Examples | Britannica Metre, in poetry, the rhythmic pattern of a poetic line Various principles, based on the natural rhythms of language, have been devised to organize poetic lines into rhythmic units
Poetry - Form, Rhyme, Meter | Britannica Poetry - Form, Rhyme, Meter: People nowadays who speak of form in poetry almost always mean such externals as regular measure and rhyme, and most often they mean to get rid of these in favor of the freedom they suppose must follow upon the absence of form in this limited sense
Caesura | Definition, Examples Prosody | Britannica In Germanic and Old English alliterative poetry, the caesura was a formal device dividing each line centrally into two half lines, as in this example from “The Battle of Maldon”:
Epic | Definition, Characteristics, Examples, Development, Facts . . . To compose and to memorize long narrative poems like the Iliad and the Odyssey, oral poets used a highly elaborate technical language with a large store of traditional verbal formulas, which could describe recurring ideas and situations in ways that suited the requirements of meter
Sonnet | Definition, Examples, Facts | Britannica The sonnet was introduced to England, along with other Italian verse forms, by Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, in the 16th century The new forms precipitated the great Elizabethan flowering of lyric poetry, and the period marks the peak of the sonnet’s English popularity