Poetry
What is it? Literature in meter form. Words that are written as a pattern and rhythm and rhyme.
Where is it? Practiced all over the world. Been around for hundreds of years. Can be as short as a few lines to as long as a novel.
What makes it unique No one way to describe it. A way to get out thoughts and feelings. Many interpretations.
What does this mean? Beauty is truth. Truth, beauty. That is all ye know on Earth and all ye need to know.
Basic words to know Meter: unit of rhythm, the pattern of beats. Why so pale and wan, fond Lover? Prithee why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? - Sir John Suckling's "Song"
Stanza: division of four or more lines having a fixed length Stanza: division of four or more lines having a fixed length. Like a paragraph in a book. My mother’s maids, when they did sew and spin, They sang sometimes a song of the field mouse, That for because their livelihood was but so thin. Would needs go seek her townish sister’s house. Would needs She thought herself endured to much pain: The stormy blasts her cave so sore did souse…”
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