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Lakshmi
Mar 22, 20236 min read
Following World Poetry Day
On World Poetry Day (21 March), as I was preparing to read a poem out loud to be recorded, so that it could be posted on some of the most...
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Lakshmi
Apr 6, 20222 min read
One Verse Every Week 'THE WIZARD ARCHETYPE'
There are twelve main literary archetypes derived from Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung's findings. The Wizard is one of the twelve: A Wizard...
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Lakshmi
Mar 30, 20222 min read
One Verse Every Week 'THE HERO ARCHETYPE'
There are twelve main literary archetypes derived from Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung's findings. The Hero is one of the twelve: Hero,...
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Lakshmi
Nov 3, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'TONE'
What does one mean when one says, "I didn't like his tone." or "Don't you dare speak to me in that tone!" or "That song has a happy...
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Lakshmi
Oct 27, 20212 min read
One Verse Every Week 'EUPHONY'
Rock a-bye, baby, On the tree top, When the wind blows, The cradle will rock. When the bough breaks, The baby will fall, Down will come...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Lakshmi
Jul 21, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'EYE RHYME'
We associate rhyme with sound and it mainly is to do with the aural sense. However, an eye rhyme is an exception; it is a rhyme that...
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Lakshmi
Jul 14, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'RHYME'
Rhyme is not new to us. Nursery rhymes, the most popular types of rhymes, have a certain quality to them — perhaps why we retain them in...
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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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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 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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