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Lakshmi
Jun 23, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'ANAPEST'
Anapest is antidactylus because it is the reverse of dactyl. What is dactyl? Refer to O's earlier commentary on dactyl, or let us simply...
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Ahmad Towaiq
Jun 19, 20211 min read
Verse-Seasons 'N Picks 'MOHAMMAD BIN IDREES AL SHAFEI'
A travel enthusiast who toured most of the Arab world in search of religious and linguistic knowledge including Gaza, Cairo, Mecca,...
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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
Jun 9, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'PYRRHUS'
Like an iamb, a trochee, and a spondee, a pyrrhus, too, is a type of foot in a metrical feet. While a spondee is a pair of stressed...
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Ahmad Towaiq
Jun 6, 20212 min read
Verse-Seasons 'N Picks 'BISHER BIN KHAZIM AL ASADI'
War poetry, as a genre, is hugely popular. These poems vividly paint the trauma, the pain, the loss, the atrocities and every nightmare...
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Lakshmi
Jun 3, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'SPONDEE'
Like an iamb and a trochee, a spondee, too, is a type of foot in a metrical feet. In a spondee one stressed syllable follows another...
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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 11, 20212 min read
Verse-Seasons 'N Picks 'Mahakavi KUMARAN ASAN'
Kumaran Asan was awarded the title Mahakavi (great poet), by Madras University in 1922. When the evils of caste system had cast its...
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Lakshmi
Apr 26, 20212 min read
Verse-Seasons 'N Picks 'GOPAL PRASAD VYAS'
क्यों इस राशन के युग में, पानी बेकार बहाऊँ मैं? [In this era of extreme scarcity Why must I let water run out?] Quite serious an issue!...
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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 17, 20212 min read
Verse-Seasons 'N Picks 'JOHN WILMOT, Earl of Rochester'
The first poet featured here on O, John Wilmot, was the second Earl of Rochester. A libertine, the Earl was infamous for his waywardness...
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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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Lakshmi
Apr 8, 20211 min read
Upon Verse: Q&A
Q. Verse, what is it? A. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines verse as writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a...
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