Metre-oracled
Let metephors flow..while images rhyme, unstructure find
My focus. As 'thoughts whirl in sublime.' Let shiver the ether' come all.. Come what? this May.' Into June..Nay
Through a years run.'May poetic licence; and richest expressive..
Be on full display.'
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Categories:
metre, assonance,
Form: Free verse
Unsmart Metre
I’ll apologise here at the start
For this verse won’t appeal to your heart.
So banal, it’s a shame
But I’ll shoulder the blame
’Cos it's not rude, nor funny, nor smart!
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Categories:
metre, assonance, depression, feelings, heart,
Form: Limerick
The Triumphant Tragedy
Hard to bear and heart breaking,
The bitter sight of the shining One,
Broken in body still bold of spirit.
Spite driven nails gnaw the wrists,
Brow torn open by hard twisted thorns.
Our glorious King crippled
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Categories:
metre, celebration, christian,
Form: Alliteration
Epic
The blade buried beneath the burning.
Old hopes lost, back in the lash of battle.
One man walks along the winded mount,
Turning slowly, the sun-silvered seas
Draw his heart horizon-ward, his eyes
Focus in search
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Categories:
metre, myth,
Form: Alliteration
Ch'I-Yen-Shih Metre - I Am Brave
i chase the sun, on bare feet.
one thought i have, the sun stays.
no cloud to hide, my dim route,
for death, it hides, feel it's gaze!
one day I walk, smooth ground run.
mind rocks and sand, the track hides
eyes seek out cracks, could mean some
food, tum needs grub, each step bides
i have cool drinks, streams quench thirst.
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Categories:
metre, me, water, weather,
Form: Rhyme
Metre In the Thirukkural: Kural 35 of Canto 4, a Random Example
Metre in the THIRUKKURAL: Kural 35 of Canto 4, a random example.
alukkaa ravaavekuli yinnaacchon naangku
milukkaa viyanra tharam (unrefined, given in the original state of
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Categories:
metre, poetry, tamil, word play,
Form: Epigram
Musings On Poetic Metre, Rhythm, and Song
Rhythm’s a trick of deft poets,
who know the pulses of their feet
give lines their tempo. And so it’s
like a poem’s pulsating heartbeat;
it’s hypnotic (and you know it’s
metric),—so drink in its potent beat!
When one hears a song’s rich measure
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Categories:
metre, drink, magic, music, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Basics of Metre 2
metre
unit of rhythm pattern of the beats
a foot has syllables two or three
variety on accent or stress
iamb is unstressed stressed
trochee is stressed unstressed
dactyl stressed unstressed unstressed
anapest reverse of dactyl
thats all for today
history
of poetry
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Categories:
metre, education,
Form: I do not know?
Basics of Metre In Poems 1
rhythmic structure of a verse
study of metre prosody
patterns of syllables of types
stressed syllables at regular interval
qualitative
long short short dactyl
long long spondee in dead classics
alexandrine twelve syllables in french
five characters in chinese all rules then
people had lot of time to spare
sequence of feet is a metre too
stressed and unstressed like people
five iambic feet are iambic
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Categories:
metre, education,
Form: I do not know?