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A sestina ( Italian: sestina, from sesto, sixth; Old Occitan: cledisat [klediˈzat]; also known as sestine, sextine, sextain) is a fixed verse form consisting of six stanzas of six lines each, normally followed by a three-line envoi.
Poetry analysis is the process of investigating the form of a poem, content, structural semiotics and history in an informed way, with the aim of heightening one's own and others' understanding and appreciation of the work. [1] The words poem and poetry derive from the Greek poiēma (to make) and poieo (to create).
Vers libre is a free-verse poetic form of flexibility, complexity, and naturalness [12] created in the late 19th century in France, in 1886. It was largely through the activities of La Vogue, a weekly journal founded by Gustave Kahn, [13] as well as the appearance of a band of poets unequaled at any one time in the history of French poetry. [14]
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The quadrille – musical analysis Quadrille (sample) Thus the quadrille was a very intricate dance. The standard form contained five different parts, and the Viennese lengthened it to six different parts. The following table shows what the different parts look like, musically speaking: part 1: Pantalon (written in 2 4 or 6 8)
The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned from Crete had thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians down even to the time of Demetrius Phalereus, for they took away the old planks as they decayed, putting in new and stronger timber in their places, insomuch that this ship became a standing example among the philosophers ...
John Roe, in Jane Doe, "My Dinner with Alien Invaders" Template documentation [view] [history] [purge] A template for quoting poems, song lyrics, and other things that have frequent line breaks and other things that would generally be ignored in standard wiki formatting. Based on {{ Blockquote }}; see there for further usage details. Example Markup Renders as {{ Poem quote | text = <!-- or: 1 ...
Poem code. The poem code is a simple and insecure, cryptographic method which was used during World War II by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) to communicate with their agents in Nazi-occupied Europe. The method works by having the sender and receiver pre-arranging a poem to use. The sender chooses a set number of words at random ...