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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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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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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
Jul 10, 20212 min read
On O's Stage 'EFUA SUTHERLAND'
Efua Sutherland did not just begin writing after inspiring ideas and thoughts nudged her mind or after scribbling about. It was...
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Lakshmi
Jul 7, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'QUANTITATIVE METER'
Although the metrical system in English poetry is predominantly qualitative, quantitative meter, too, has been attempted in English...
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Lakshmi
Jun 30, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'QUALITATIVE METER'
When studying English poetry, repeated mention of terminologies such as, stressed syllable and unstressed syllable are hard to miss, and...
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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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Sarah Mariam Koshy
Jun 7, 20212 min read
EnvironMental 'CHOKED'
WARNED © Sylvia Stults The sands of time have rendered fear Blue skies on high no longer clear Stars were bright whence they came Now...
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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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Sarah Mariam Koshy
May 31, 20212 min read
EnvironMental 'BUZZING BEES'
'Thank a bee for every one in three bites of food you take!' Flying from flower to flower bees are fun to watch and of course scary to...
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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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Sarah Mariam Koshy
May 23, 20211 min read
EnvironMental 'WILDFIRE'
In my peaceful abode I rest tonight With my infant beside me, snuggled so tight I hear the wind whistle and feel the breeze blow The...
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