Categories:
scansion, appreciation,
Form: Epigram
CAPITALISATON just my opinion f
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LINE CAPITALISATION scansion simply scuppered...
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Categories:
scansion, poetry, voice,
Form: Alliteration
I'Ll Sing For You a Symphony
...I'll sing for you a symphony
and strum the strings in beats
an inspired grandiose melody
of lifelong rhapsody entirely
four movements my heart completes.
I'll sing for you a ch...
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Categories:
scansion, love, muse, music,
Form: Rhyme
Devices
...I want to start with some simple Alliteration
seaside surf in winter is so very crisply cool
(try to fix find and fit some Personification
your wandering mind is a rambling fool).
Assonance ver...
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Categories:
scansion, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Rhyming Simon
...I am seriously out of kilter with the poetry glitterati,
my poems have lines that sometimes rhyme, so therefore are not arty farty.
I discourse on experiences that have happened to me,
I know bugg...
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Categories:
scansion, angst, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Heretical Hanks
...There once was a poet named Hanks
Who loved to play metrical pranks;
A master of rhyme
And sonnets sublime
He'd nevertheless be the first to confess
That his messing with scansion caused lavish ...
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Categories:
scansion, angst, humorous, poetry,
Form: Limerick
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:
scansion, poetry, tamil, word play,
Form: Epigram
Categories:
scansion, allegory, allusion, irony, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Neater Meter, Almost a Sonnet
...I hope someday to write a perfect sonnet
instead of this absurd excuse for meter,
with gentle touch of elegance upon it
and not insipid rhymes as brain cells peter.
Another time I’ll switch on my...
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Categories:
scansion, appreciation, parody, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Charles Phillips
...The modern immortal -
man of open heart, singer of the stars.
Professor at the prestigious university.
Prose stylist as John Steinbeck.
In your poems,
your prosody has melody –
rhythmic...
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Categories:
scansion, america,
Form: Verse
Imagination
...Imagination frees imprisoned souls
to soar among the stars on golden wings
or rest upon the moon as gods of night.
To fill yourselves with grandeur, close your eyes.
You're kings and queens to rule ...
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Categories:
scansion, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Inspiration
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I like to think a thought right through,
then cogitate a phrase or two.
A telling rhyme, with scansion clear,
will echo through my inner ear.
Then if I've pondered far too hard,
I'll summon...
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Categories:
scansion, hope, inspirational,
Form: Verse
And Frees Your Robot Mind (Little Wisdoms)
...Iambic Heptameter Couplets (fourteen syllables--seven unstressed--seven stressed)
scansion of first line:
a/LIT/tle/TA/ken/IN/the/MID/dle/'TILL/you/HAVE/e/NOUGH
unstressed syllables: a/tle/ken/t...
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Categories:
scansion, life, time, life, time,
Form: Couplet