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91Elegiac couplet — Elegiac couplets are a poetic form used by Greek lyric poets for a variety of themes usually of smaller scale than those of epic poetry. The ancient Romans frequently used elegiac couplets in love poetry, as in Ovid s Amores . As with heroic… …
92Kalevala — For other uses, see Kalevala (disambiguation). The Kalevala   …
93George Puttenham — (1529–1590) is the reputed English author of The Arte of English Poesie (1589).FamilyGeorge was the second son of Robert Puttenham of Sherfield on Loddon in Hampshire and his wife Margaret, the daughter of Sir Richard Elyot and sister of Sir… …
94Good King Wenceslas — is a popular Christmas carol about a king who goes out to give alms to a poor peasant on the Feast of Stephen (the second day of Christmas, December 26). During the journey, his page is about to give up the struggle against the cold weather, but… …
95Alcaic verse — (sometimes called Anacreontic verse) is a Greek lyrical meter, traditionally believed to have been invented by Alcaeus, a lyric poet from Mytilene on the island of Lesbos, about 600 BC. The Alcaic verse and the Sapphic stanza named for Alcaeus… …
96Bridges' Analysis of Paradise Lost — In his book Milton s Prosody , Robert Bridges undertakes a detailed analysis of the prosody of John Milton s Paradise Lost . Bridges shows that there are no lines in Paradise Lost with less than ten syllables, and furthermore, that with a… …
97Carmina Burana (Orff) — Listen filename=Carl Orff Carmina Burana O Fortuna.ogg title=O Fortuna description=From Carmina Burana by Carl Orff format=Ogg Carmina Burana is a scenic cantata composed by Carl Orff between 1935 and 1936. It is based on 24 of the poems found in …
98Hemistich — A hemistich is a half line of verse, followed and preceded by a caesura, that makes up a single overall prosodic or verse unit. In Classical poetry, the hemistich is generally confined to drama. In Greek tragedy, characters exchanging clipped… …
99Popfreeradio.com — is an alternative format internet radio station based in Kansas City. The station uses the tag line The Antithesis of Top 40 and is hailed by The Pitch (newspaper) as comparable to 96.5 (KRBZ, the station s in market FM competition) but fresher.… …
100Haiku in English — is a development of the Japanese haiku poetic form in the English language. Contemporary haiku are written in many languages, but most poets outside of Japan are concentrated in the English speaking countries. It is impossible to single out any… …
