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  2. Cinquain - Wikipedia

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    a nine-line syllabic form with the pattern two, four, six, eight, two, eight, six, four, two. Crown cinquain. a sequence of five cinquain stanzas functioning to construct one larger poem. Garland cinquain. a series of six cinquains in which the last is formed of lines from the preceding five, typically line one from stanza one, line two from ...

  3. Quintain (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    Quintain (poetry) A quintain or pentastich is any poetic form containing five lines. Examples include the tanka, the cinquain, the quintilla, Shakespeare's Sonnet 99, and the limerick .

  4. List of poetry groups and movements - Wikipedia

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    The Minimalism is an avantgardist artistic, dramatic and literary movement in the late 1960s and '70s U.S. emerged, is characterized by an economy with words and a focus on surface description. The poets who identified with it are Samuel Beckett, Grace Paley, Raymond Carver, Robert Grenier, Aram Saroyan, and Jon Fosse.

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  7. History of poetry - Wikipedia

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    Poetry as an oral art form likely predates written text. [ 1] The earliest poetry is believed to have been recited or sung, employed as a way of remembering oral history, genealogy, and law. Poetry is often closely related to musical traditions, and the earliest poetry exists in the form of hymns (such as Hymn to the Death of Tammuz), and other ...

  8. Sonnet - Wikipedia

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    The poem's fascination for U.S. writers is evidenced by no less than five translations in the second half of the 20th century alone. [24] The sonnet form crossed the Atlantic quite early in the Spanish colonial enterprise when Francisco de Terrazas, the son of a 16th-century conquistador, was among its Mexican pioneers.

  9. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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    Acephalous line: a line lacking the first element. Line: a unit into which a poem is divided. Line break: the termination of the line of a poem and the beginning of a new line. Metre (or meter): the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse. Metres are influenced by syllables and their "weight".