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  • 81Gabriello Chiabrera —     Gabriello Chiabrera     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Gabriello Chiabrera     A poet, born at Savona, Italy, 8 June, 1552, died there 1638. When nine years of age he went to Rome to live with an uncle and there received his early education. He… …

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  • 82Dave Morice — Birth name David Jennings Patrick Morice Born September 10, 1946 St. Louis, MO Dave Morice (born September 10, 1946) is a …

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  • 83rhyme — Synonyms and related words: English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, accord, alba, alliterate, alliteration, anacreontic, assonance, assonate, balada, ballad, ballade, beat …

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  • 84Layamon — (fl. 1200)    Metrical historian, the s. of Leovenath. All that is known of him is gathered from his own writings. He was a priest at Ernley (now Areley Regis), Worcestershire. In his day the works of Geoffrey of Monmouth and Wace, in French,… …

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  • 85pen|tam|e|ter — «pehn TAM uh tuhr», noun, adjective. –n. 1. a) poetry having five metrical feet or measures in each line. Example: “A lít/tle léarn/ing ís/ a dań/ g rous thíng.” b) = iambic pentameter (Cf. ↑iambic pentameter) (the measure of heroic verse, rhymed …

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  • 86tanka — noun Etymology: Japanese Date: circa 1877 an unrhymed Japanese verse form of five lines containing five, seven, five, seven, and seven syllables respectively; also a poem in this form compare haiku …

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  • 87Horace — Quintus Horatius Flaccus, (Venosa, December 8, 65 BC Rome, November 27, 8 BC), known in the English speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus.LifeBorn in Venosa or Venusia, as it was called in his day …

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  • 88Pantoum — The pantoum is a form of poetry similar to a villanelle. It is composed of a series of quatrains; the second and fourth lines of each stanza are repeated as the first and third lines of the next. This pattern continues for any number of stanzas,… …

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  • 89Nikolay Nekrasov — Born December 10 [O.S. November 28] 1821 Nemyriv Died 8 January 1878 [O.S. 28 December 1877] Occupa …

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  • 90Byzantine music — is the music of the Byzantine Empire composed to Greek texts as ceremonial, festival, or church music [The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. 2007 Byzantine music ] . Greek and foreign historians agree that the ecclesiastical tones and in… …

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