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Lakshmi
Sep 29, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'CONSONANCE'
Consonance is a literary device used to create rhyming effect and musicality in a text, especially of poems. It, essentially, is the...
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Sarah Mariam Koshy
Sep 26, 20212 min read
EnvironMental 'SNOW LEOPARDS'
The elegant snow leopard with their beautiful spotted fur is an endangered species with only around four thousand of them remaining. With...
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Lakshmi
Sep 22, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'DISSONANCE'
In poetry, dissonance, is a powerful and useful literary device, employed by poets, although dissonance disrupts the harmony of vowel...
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Lakshmi
Sep 21, 20212 min read
Verse-Seasons 'N Picks 'LAETITIA PILKINGTON'
Laetitia Pilkington was no ordinary woman. Pilkington's extraordinariness was rather conspicuous, especially in the Libertine age or...
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Sarah Mariam Koshy
Sep 19, 20211 min read
EnvironMental 'ATLANTIC BLUEFIN TUNA'
This is a lament, this is a call to action, my dear-dear friends! I am inconsolable every time I task myself with apprising all of us of...
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Lakshmi
Sep 15, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'ASSONANCE'
The likeness in rhyming sounds between only stressed vowels, not consonants, of two or more words that are placed successively or close...
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Sarah Mariam Koshy
Sep 12, 20211 min read
EnvironMental 'LADYBIRDS'
This week let's take a look at a cute little red critter and the role it plays in our environment. These are soft bodied variously...
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Lakshmi
Sep 8, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'ALLITERATION'
In literature, when the same initial consonant (in some cases even vowel) sounds are repeated in successive or closely placed syllables...
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Sarah Mariam Koshy
Sep 5, 20211 min read
EnvironMental 'FASHION: WEEK-IV'
Following a fashion event we've all familiar with how the audience walks away with plastic gift bags that contain various samples from...
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Lakshmi
Sep 1, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'MONORHYME'
The following lines from Edward Lear's To Miss Lear on her Birthday have the same end rhyme: Dear, and very dear relation, Time, who...
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Megha S. Sunder
Aug 30, 20212 min read
Verse-Seasons 'N Picks 'O. N. V. KURUP'
When reading or listening to his poems, one could easily wonder if there ever lived a poet who loved Mother Earth as fervently as this...
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Lakshmi
Aug 25, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'IDENTICAL RHYME'
Identical rhyme in English poetry is when the verse has identical vowel and identical onset twice in rhyming positions, most often...
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Sarah Mariam Koshy
Aug 22, 20211 min read
EnvironMental 'FASHION: WEEK-III'
It feels good to finally walk down the street showing off a pair of limited edition sneakers or having a branded tote or backpack slung...
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Lakshmi
Aug 18, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'INTERNAL RHYME AND END RHYME'
What is the difference between internal rhyme and end rhyme? Internal rhyme and end rhyme are determined by the position of the rhyme...
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Sarah Mariam Koshy
Aug 15, 20212 min read
EnvironMental 'FASHION: WEEK-II'
As promised, I am back this week with the second edition on the disastrous impact of fashion on the planet. This is Week-II of a series...
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Sarah Mariam Koshy
Aug 8, 20212 min read
EnvironMental 'FASHION: WEEK-I'
Appearance, how much does it matter? The replies are going to be diverse, considering how different every individual is. Not all of us...
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Lakshmi
Aug 4, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'INTERNAL RHYME'
Internal rhyme, too, is an aural rhyme, where similar sounding words or syllables occur within the same line multiple times, such as in...
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Sarah Mariam Koshy
Aug 1, 20211 min read
EnvironMental 'DYING'
My past talking points, especially, Heatwave and Sinking throw light on the present environmental crises that the world is fighting....
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Ahmad Towaiq
Jul 31, 20212 min read
Verse-Seasons 'N Picks 'ABU AL TAYYEB AL MUTANABBI'
The tenth century poet Abu Al Tayyeb Al Mutanabbi is one of the greatest world poets, who wrote in Arabic. His poems are riddled with...
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Lakshmi
Jul 28, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'END RHYME'
This is the most common form of rhyme and also the most discernible type of rhyming pattern in a poem or verse. This is an aural rhyme,...
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