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Lakshmi
Jun 16, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'DACTYL'
An iamb, trochee and spondee are two-syllabic feet in a verse. A dactyl is a three-syllabic foot in a verse. In a dactylic meter a...
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Lakshmi
May 26, 20212 min read
One Verse Every Week 'CAESURA'
What's Montague? || It is nor hand nor foot --William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (II.ii.40) This line is in blank verse. But how is...
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Lakshmi
May 19, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'TROCHEE'
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. (IV.i.10-11) Remember these lines and the three witch sisters in...
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Lakshmi
May 13, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'FEMININE-ENDING BLANK VERSE'
A blank verse with a feminine ending is, not the standard ten-syllabic metre, instead, one more than the ten, ending with an additional...
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Lakshmi
May 5, 20212 min read
One Verse Every Week 'CAPPING COUPLET'
Capping couplet is one rhymed couplet of two lines, which have the same metre. These are typically found at the end of poems or at the...
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Lakshmi
Apr 28, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'HEROIC COUPLET'
Heroic couplet is a form of iambic pentameter. They are a pair of iambic pentameters with a rhyming metric template such as aa, bb, cc...
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Lakshmi
Apr 22, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'FREE VERSE'
Miss Nancy Ellicott smoked And danced all the modern dances; And her aunts were not quite sure how they felt about it, But they knew that...
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Lakshmi
Apr 15, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'BLANK VERSE'
We will start with verse-types in the English language first, only because the content generated, for the moment by 'O', is mainly in...
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