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Metre Poems - Poems about Metre


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. a...

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Categories: metre, me, water, weather,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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



Premium Member 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?

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