caesuras — cae·su·ra || siË zjÊŠÉ™rÉ™ n. pause, break (Music, Poetry) … English contemporary dictionary
Classical Chinese poetry forms — Poet on a Mountaintop by Shen Zhou, about 1500 CE (Ming Dynasty). Main articles: Chinese poetry and Classical Chinese poetry Classical Chinese poetry forms are those poetry forms, or modes, which typify the traditional Chinese poems written in… … Wikipedia
Latin poetry — was a major part of Latin literature during the height of the Latin language. During Latin literature s Golden Age, most of the great literature was written in poetry, including works by Virgil, Catullus, and Horace.A number of meters are used in … Wikipedia
Alexandrine — An alexandrine is a line of poetic meter comprising 12 syllables. Alexandrines are common in the German literature of the Baroque period and in French poetry of the early modern and modern periods. Drama in English often used alexandrines before… … Wikipedia
Cynghanedd — In Welsh language poetry, Cynghanedd (Welsh pronunciation: [kəŋ̊ˈhaneð], literally harmony ) is the basic concept of sound arrangement within one line, using stress, alliteration and rhyme. The various forms of cynghanedd show up in the… … Wikipedia
Qur'an reading — is the reading ( tarteel , tajwid , or taghbir ) aloud, reciting, or chanting of portions of the Qur an. It is not considered music by Muslims and when recited the style is structurally dissimilar from music (even secular Arab music). The reciter … Wikipedia
caesura — caesural, caesuric, adj. /si zhoor euh, zoor euh, siz yoor euh/, n., pl. caesuras, caesurae /si zhoor ee, zoor ee, siz yoor ee/. 1. Pros. a break, esp. a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical … Universalium
prosody — prosodic /preuh sod ik/, prosodical, adj. /pros euh dee/, n. 1. the science or study of poetic meters and versification. 2. a particular or distinctive system of metrics and versification: Milton s prosody. 3. Ling. the stress and intonation… … Universalium
caesura — cae*su ra, n.; pl. E. {caesuras}, L. {C[ae]sur[ae]} [L. caesura a cutting off, a division, stop, fr. caedere, caesum, to cut off. See {Concise}.] A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Caesurae — caesura cae*su ra, n.; pl. E. {caesuras}, L. {C[ae]sur[ae]} [L. caesura a cutting off, a division, stop, fr. caedere, caesum, to cut off. See {Concise}.] A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
