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...

A travel enthusiast who toured most of the Arab world in search of religious and linguistic knowledge including Gaza, Cairo, Mecca,...

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...

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...

War poetry, as a genre, is hugely popular. These poems vividly paint the trauma, the pain, the loss, the atrocities and every nightmare...

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...

A blank verse with a feminine ending is, not the standard ten-syllabic metre, instead, one more than the ten, ending with an additional...

Kumaran Asan was awarded the title Mahakavi (great poet), by Madras University in 1922. When the evils of caste system had cast its...

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!...

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...

The first poet featured here on O, John Wilmot, was the second Earl of Rochester. A libertine, the Earl was infamous for his waywardness...

We will start with verse-types in the English language first, only because the content generated, for the moment by 'O', is mainly in...

Q. Verse, what is it? A. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines verse as writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a...