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Why are identical rhymes inferior in English poetry?
From “War Pigs” by Black Sabbath:
Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
In English poetry, a perfect rhyme has identical vowels but different onsets, like come ...
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What do you call a poem or song that sets up a rhyme and then ignores it?
Here is a line from the song "Popular" in the musical Wicked. I am trying to explain what we call the anticlimax of the last three lines, where a rhyme is expected but not delivered.
When I see ...
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Why don’t we write poetry like Beowulf any longer?
Beowulf, the Old English epic poem, uses a characteristically Germanic style of poetry in which the number of strong beats per line is what counts. Instead of counting syllables, strong beats alone ...
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Why is this considered a “romantic” poem? [closed]
In Willam Blake's poem, what makes it a romantic poem?
I wandered through each chartered street,
Near where the chartered Thames does flow,
A mark in every face I meet,
Marks of weakness, ...
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Older pronunciations of the “-ity” suffix [duplicate]
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Rhyming conventions of Early Modern English
Andrew Marvell's poem To His Coy Mistress from the mid-1600's follows an AABBCCDD[...] rhyming pattern. Therefore, it is ...
