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"Constantinople", a 'ferro-concrete poem' from Tango with Cows by the Russian Futurist Vasily Kamensky, 1914. Concrete poetry is an arrangement of linguistic elements in which the typographical effect is more important in conveying meaning than verbal significance. [1]
Because of the variety of performance modes, oríkì defies classification as music or poetry, and it has been studied from both perspectives. Historically, oríkì was delivered by a specialist in a particular vocal style. [4] For example, ìjálá is acoustically open and intense, while ewì is spoken in a high-falsetto, wailing voice quality.
In poetry, enjambment (/ ɛ n ˈ dʒ æ m b m ən t / or / ɪ n ˈ dʒ æ m m ən t /; from the French enjamber) [1] [2] [3] is incomplete syntax at the end of a line; [4] the meaning 'runs over' or 'steps over' from one poetic line to the next, without punctuation. [5] Lines without enjambment are end-stopped. [6]
The Day the Crayons Came Home is a 2015 children's book written by Drew Daywalt and illustrated by Oliver Jeffers. The book is a sequel to The Day the Crayons Quit . [1] [2] The book is about crayons who are scattered around the world and in the house of a boy named Duncan, and how they communicate with him through postcards. [3]
The poem became popular, eventually becoming what one commentator called "[t]he most quoted poem in twentieth-century America, after 'The Night Before Christmas'". [5] In addition to being widely anthologized, [ 2 ] it was often transmitted orally without credit to Burgess. [ 3 ]
A mother reads to her children in a mid- to late 19th century lithograph by Jessie Willcox Smith. The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883) is a canonical piece of children's literature and one of the best-selling books ever published.
Song poetry refers to Classical Chinese poetry of or typical of the Song dynasty of China, established by the Zhao family in China in 960 and lasted until 1279. Many of the best known Classical Chinese poems, popular also in translation, are from the Song dynasty poets, such as Su Shi (Dongpo) , Ouyang Xiu , Lu You and Yang Wanli .
An iamb (/ ˈ aɪ æ m / EYE-am) or iambus is a metrical foot used in various types of poetry.Originally the term referred to one of the feet of the quantitative meter of classical Greek prosody: a short syllable followed by a long syllable (as in καλή (kalḗ) "beautiful (f.)").