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	Learn more about Poetry in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Poetry can be differentiated most of the time from prose, which is language meant to convey meaning in a more expansive and less condensed way, frequently using more complete logical or narrative structures than poetry does.
		A further complication is that prose poetry combines the characteristics of poetry with the superficial appearance of prose.
		In pre-literate societies, poetry was frequently employed as a means of recording oral history, storytelling (epic poetry), genealogy, law and other forms of expression or knowledge that modern societies might expect to be handled in prose.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /p/po/poetry_1.html (1146 words)

	Meter (poetry) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In English poetry, feet are determined by emphasis rather than length, with stressed and unstressed syllables serving the same function as long and short syllables in classical meter.
		In French poetry, meter is determined solely by the number of syllables in a line.
		Hopkins claimed most poetry was written in a rhythmic structure inherited from the Norman side of the English literary heritage, based on repeating groups of two or three syllables, with the stressed syllable falling in the same place on each repetition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Meter_(poetry) (2177 words)

	Poetry -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Poetry can be differentiated most of the time from (Ordinary writing as distinguished from verse) prose, which is language meant to convey meaning in a more expansive and less condensed way, frequently using more complete logical or narrative structures than poetry does.
		And there is, of course, narrative poetry, not to mention dramatic poetry, both of which are used to tell stories and so resemble (A extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story) novels and (A dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage) plays.
		In fact, rhyme did not enter European poetry at all until the (additional info and facts about High Middle Ages) High Middle Ages, when it was adopted from the (The Semitic language of the Arabs; spoken in a variety of dialects) Arabic language.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/po/poetry.htm (2545 words)

	Guide to Verse Forms - Metre
		The metre is the rhythm of a poem.
		Repeating patterns in the metre are an important element - some would say the main element - in the structure of poetry.
		As Arnaut and Karkur point out (see poetry links), not all the even-numbered syllables are necessarily stressed; for a satisfactory line of iambic pentameter, it is sufficient that none of the odd-numbered syllables be stressed.
	www.noggs.dsl.pipex.com /vf/metre.htm (944 words)

	metre -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Quantitative verse, the metre of classical Greek and Latin poetry, measures quantity, or the length of time required to pronounce syllables regardless of their stress.
		Thus, the classic metre of French poetry is the alexandrine, a line of 12 syllables with a medial caesura (a pause occurring after the 6th syllable).
		In more sophisticated poetry, regular metre is a subtle and flexible device, organically integrated into the total poem through its sensitive interaction with the natural rhythms of speech and the meaning of words.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9052351?tocId=9052351 (1215 words)

	metre -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Quantitative verse, the metre of Classical Greek and Latin poetry, measures the length of time required to pronounce syllables, regardless of their stress; combinations of long and short syllables form the basic rhythmic units.
		A time (or metre) signature, found at the beginning of a piece of music, indicates the number of beats in a measure and the value of the basic beat.
		The metre was historically defined by the French Academy of Sciences in 1791 as of the quadrant of the Earth's circumference running from the North Pole...
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9371987?tocId=9371987 (819 words)

	The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page: Quotes on Poetry
		In didactic poetry, of which the great purpose is instruction, a simile may be praised which illustrates, though it does not ennoble; in heroics, that may be admitted which ennobles, though it does not illustrate.
		Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason.
		The variety of pauses, so much boasted by the lovers of blank verse, changes the measures of an English poet to the periods of a disclaimer; and there are only a few skilful and happy readers of Milton who enable their audience to perceive where the lines end or begin.
	www.samueljohnson.com /poetry.html (1280 words)

	Arabic poetry
		THE METRES normally used in Arabic poetry were first codified in the 8th century by al-Khalil bin Ahmad and have changed little since.
		Metre (wazn) is based on the length of syllables rather than stress.
		Because short vowels are generally considered long when they occur at the end of a line, the vowels which appear short in their written form also rhyme with their corresponding long vowels - it's the pronunciation, not the writing, that counts.
	www.al-bab.com /arab/literature/poetry.htm (552 words)

	Poetry Quotes & Quotations compiled by GIGA
		Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
		Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.
		Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.
	www.giga-usa.com /quotes/topics/poetry_t005.htm (315 words)

	circle of poets, rythm, poetry, poetry contest, poetry competition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Metre is a contentious subject, and studies based on mechanical, musical, organic and linguistic analogies have shown how little is currently understood.{1} Nonetheless, as defined as some pattern of phonological stress, pitch and/or length, rhythm is an inescapable element of poetry.
		New metres are rarely created, but much more common is the importation and adaptation of metre from a foreign language, which is a good reason for reading beyond translations.
		Metre gives dignity and memorability, conveying tempo, mood, the subtle shifts in evidence, passion and persuasion beyond what is possible in prose.
	rythm.circleofpoets.com (7941 words)

	Other meters (from poetry) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		During the 19th century the traditional meters of English poetry were challenged by such writers as Gerard Manley Hopkins in England and Walt Whitman in the United States.
		Language can be used in several ways to tell a story, marvel at the wonders of nature, explain the universe, give advice, or ponder the mysteries of life and death.
		In some French poetry the 12-syllable line is the dominant...
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-206712?tocId=206712&ct=eb (558 words)

	Mallika Sengupta and the Poetry of Feminist Conviction
		Mallika Sengupta and the Poetry of Feminist Conviction
		Poetry always caters to a minority readership because the majority lacks the training to appreciate subtlety.
		Poetry is probably happy with its committed and motivated minority ‘we’ group of readers.
	india.poetryinternational.org /cwolk/view/24331 (1298 words)

	The Kalevala metre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Kalevala metre appears to date back to the Proto-Finnic period and survived among the Estonians, the Ingrians, the Votes, most of the Karelians, and the Finns.
		The poetic metre of these songs was a special trochaic tetrametre which is now often called Kalevala metre.
		The old folk poetry does not originate from a single historical period, but is a mixture of numerous layers which vary in age.
	www.karuse.info /metre.htm (932 words)

	Reuven Tsur and Yehosheva Bentov
		Consequently, hammitpaSSet metre constitutes a burden upon short-term memory for two reasons: it consists of two types of metric feet, and it is beginning-accented at two levels (in respect of the structure of the longer foot, and in respect of the grouping of feet together).
		Sometimes it is a variant of one of the classical metres, with a change in the order of feet, or the addition of one of its feet at the beginning or the end of the verse.
		As for the metres that are irrelevant to the classical metres, that show no signs of regular alternation of pegs and vowels, but rather display an eclectic mixture of prosodic elements, one may find a conspicuously small number of short beats (schwa or its allophones) in relatively long sequences of vowels.
	www.tau.ac.il /~tsurxx/TsurBentovEng._b2.html (10158 words)

	Sample text for Library of Congress control number 2001053721
		However, it does not seem that any Arabic poetry composed earlier than the sixth century has survived to the present day; though some of the versions of poems which were allegedly composed in the sixth century have survived, those poems were not actually written down until the eighth or ninth century.
		Metre and rhyme were mnemonic aids in preserving a tribe's history.
		Tribal poets saw their poetry as a kind of sorcery by means of which one could build up one's own strength and weaken that of one's enemies.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/samples/random042/2001053721.html (2081 words)

	597. Poetry. Mawson, C.O. Sylvester. 1922. Roget’s International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
		dramatic -, didactic -, narrative -, lyric -, satirical- poetry; satire, opera.
		] doggerel, Hudibrastic verse; macaronics, macaronic verse; “not poetry, but prose run mad” [Pope].
		- poetry; string verses together, cap rimes, poeticize, versify, make verses, rime or rhyme, scan.
	www.bartleby.com /110/597.html (369 words)

	Nâzım Hikmet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The last of this sequence of poems is "The Epic of Şeyh Bedreddin." In this poem, I think, elements of the folk metre and the Ottoman Diwan poetry are used to the utmost.
		Those who claim that one cannot write poetry with rhyme and metre are as reactionary as those who argue that poetry cannot be without rhyme and metre.
		But at the basis of this, again, there were the metres of folk poetry and even aruz.
	www.nazimhikmetran.com /english/pages/siir_ustune.html (1758 words)

	Literary Review: Houdinis of the Strict-Metres: The Poetry of Twm Morys and Emyr Lewis - Critical Essay
		Cerdd Dafod, or the strict-metre tradition of The Twenty-four Metres in Welsh poetry, is infamous for controversy.
		Or that the cywyddau(2) of Dafydd ap Gwilym are fundamental to R. Williams Parry, as R. Williams Parry is to Morys and Lewis.
		The tradition of performing poetry, in particular, cynghanedd or the strict metres, is nothing new of course.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2078/is_2_44/ai_71317869 (1356 words)

	Poetry at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Poetry is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and syntactical content.
		It consists largely of oral or literary works in which language is used in a manner that is felt by its user and audience to differ from ordinary prose.
		And there is, of course, narrative poetry, not to mention dramatic poetry, both of which are used to tell stories and so resemble novels.
	wiki.tatet.com /Poetry.html (1300 words)

	Welsh poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		This stress-based poetry shared the common European embellishments of rhyme and alliteration, but soon developed into syllabic poetry with a unique complexity of form which, due to the strictures of the legally-sanctioned bardic order, was strictly regularised and standardised among the professional poets.
		Barddas, the bi-monthly magazine of the strict-metre poetry society, has the second greatest circulation of any poetry magazine in Britain (and that for a ‘minority’ art-form in a minority tongue, with a possible circulation of less than one percent of that of English-language journals in Britain).
		Nationalism aside, the arts – and even strict metre poetry – have perhaps their most important manifestations at the most local of levels and for the purposes of local and personal expression.
	elt.britcoun.org.pl /poetry.htm (1924 words)

	Shadow Poetry -- Resources -- Poetry Handbook -- A
		This does not count as part of the metre.
		The basic foot unstressed, unstressed, stressed, is one of the principle meters found in English Poetry.
		In poetry: the addressing of an absent or imaginary person.
	www.shadowpoetry.com /resources/handbook/a.html (675 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The New Irish Poets: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Furthermore, the anthology is very user-friendly, with an excellent introduction clearly situating new developments in Irish poetry in their social, political and literary contexts, and with photographs, biographical notes and precise brief assessments of the achievements of every poet included.
		Poetry in Ireland has always co-operated functions as instigator as well as seismograph of necessary change in broader Irish culture.
		In her introduction, she gives a list of nine poets that Metre Poetry Journal has championed and who are also present in the anthology.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1852246731 (1246 words)

	A New Metre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		But before you do, you must know that this is not what you would consider to be "normal" modern poetry.
		As Robert Frost once said, "Writing poetry without metre is like playing tennis without a net." I challenge you, find the metre in my poetry.
		I have chosen, as the most natural, a metre inspired by Samuel Taylor Coleridge's speech metres.
	sehrgut.port5.com /anewmetre (258 words)

	The Renewal of Song
		It has resulted in adaptation of the Japanese seven-five metre in poetry, which means a loss of the complex varying syllabic prosody in the Korean lyric.
		The wealth of the lyrical experience in "Indian" poetry is evident in the Upanishads and the traditional medieval Bengali poetry for instance (mangal kavyas, baromasis), as Dasgupta asserts.
		He uses the poetry of Yosano Akiko- one of the most modern Japanese poets (1878-1942), who in turn has adapted the oldest poetic form in Japanese literature to write extreme erotic poetry.
	www.seagullindia.com /index-books/renewal.html (982 words)

	Re: [New-Poetry] question of taste (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Poetry Catamaran "Just how advanced a poetic craft need be to sail along the 'known mainstream' down to the poetic sea?" Robert R. Cobb AMONG FRIENDS, original art and poetry.
		My sophomore students, for example, would probably reject any book of contemporary poetry I put in front of them, simply because poetry is not to their "taste." However, if some of them persist in literary studies they can learn to discriminate between bad and good and may become good critical readers themselves.
		Noiseless as memory, blind as fear, lake, I shall make you into a poem, for I would have you unpredictable as the human body: I shall equip you with the strength of a dream, rout you from your blue unconscious bed, overturn your unconcern, as the mind is overturned by memory, the heart by dread.
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /pipermail/new-poetry/2002-October.txt (15740 words)

	ww1.htm
		For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings; but though this be true, Poems to which any value can be attached, were never produced on any variety of subjects but by a man who being possessed of more than usual organic sensibility had also thought long and deeply.
		The only strict antithesis to Prose is Metre.] Poetry sheds no tears such as Angels weep,' but natural and human tears; she can boast of no celestial Ichor that distinguishes her vital juices from those of prose; the same human blood circulates through the veins of them both.
		This effect is always produced in pathetic and impassioned poetry; while, in lighter compositions the ease and gracefulness with which the Poet manages his numbers are themselves confessedly a principal source of the gratification of the Reader.
	www.ux1.eiu.edu /~csmhp/ww1.htm (2440 words)

	Salmon Poetry \| Poets' Showcase
		He was a founding co-editor of The Burning Bush literary magazine and is the poetry critic of The Galway Advertiser.
		In April 2003 he won the Poetry Grand Slam at the Cúirt International Festival of Literature, and went on to represent Ireland in the European Grand Slam in Paris.
		Poetry too often conjures up images of earnest, dour, loners, pouring angst into self-pitying paeans to themselves.
	www.salmonpoetry.com /showcase.html (921 words)

	Limerick.com - Poetry revived at the White House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Poetry Workshops to be held as part of Cuisle - Limerick's International Poetry Festival.
		Over the six week period various aspects of poetry will be covered, how to craft a poem including subject, style and metre will be examined and participants will be invited to share their own written poetry.
		The cost of the Masterclass on the 16th October is 15 and for those wishing to continue on for the six weeks the cost is 35 payable on date of commencement.
	www.limerick.com /whitehousepoets/workshops.html (403 words)

	Random Acts of Poetry: Biographies
		Her poetry is widely published in Canadian literary magazines including Fiddlehead, Grain, Prairie Fire, in a number of anthologies, and she has won recognition for her work in several literary competitions.
		The oral aspect of her poetry is as important as the written aspect.
		She is the co-producer of two major Montreal events: Poésie en mouvement / Poetry in Motion (the poetry-on-the-buses project, 2004) and Cirque des mots / Circus of Words, a multilingual cabaret of performance poetry (2005).
	www.abebooks.com /docs/randomactsofpoetry/bios.shtml (3600 words)

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