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Minstrel is a term most broadly used to refer to professional entertainers who flourished in Europe during the Middle Ages. See more »

Anwar, Chairil

Anwar, Chairil (1922-1949), is considered Indonesia's first great poet.

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Ballad

Ballad is a song that tells a dramatic story in verse.

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Ballade

Ballade, buh LAHD, is an elaborate, carefully patterned verse form.

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Bard

Bard was an ancient singer-poet.

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Blank verse

Blank verse is poetry written in unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter.

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Couplet

Couplet, KUHP liht, is a rhyme of two lines.

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Elision

Elision, ih LIHZH uhn, in poetry, means dropping or slurring a syllable to keep close to the meter of the poem.

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Epic

Epic is a long narrative poem.

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Epigram

Epigram, EHP uh gram, is a short, witty poem or pointed saying.

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Free verse

Free verse is a style of poetry that does not follow traditional rules of poetry composition.

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Hill, The

Hill, The, by the American poet Edgar Lee Masters, is a poem from the author's most famous work, Spoon River Anthology.

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Housewifery

Housewifery is a poem by the American colonial poet Edward Taylor.

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Idyl

Idyl, Y duhl, also spelled idyll, is a kind of pastoral poem developed by the ancient Greeks.

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Indian Burying Ground, The

Indian Burying Ground, The, is a poem by the American poet and journalist Philip Freneau.

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Lawson, Will

Lawson, Will (1876-1957), a popular poet, wrote verse in both Australia and New Zealand during the early 1900's.

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Limerick

Limerick, LIHM uhr ihk, is a form of humorous verse.

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Meistersinger

Meistersinger was one of a group of German poetmusicians who treated literary art as a sort of craft or trade.

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Miniver Cheevy

Miniver Cheevy is one of the best-known poems by the American poet Edwin Arlington Robinson.

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Minnesinger

Minnesinger, MIHN uh sihng uhr, was one of a group of German love poets who flourished from the late 1100's to the late 1300's.

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Minstrel

Minstrel is a term most broadly used to refer to professional entertainers who flourished in Europe during the Middle Ages.

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