Half a verse
1Verse drama and dramatic verse — Verse drama is any drama written as verse to be spoken; another possible general term is poetic drama. For a very long period, verse drama was the dominant form of drama in Europe (and was also important in non European cultures). Greek tragedy… …
2Half rhyme — or slant rhyme, sometimes called sprung, near rhyme, oblique rhyme, off rhyme or imperfect rhyme, is consonance on the final consonants of the words involved (e.g. ill with shell). Many half/slant rhymes are also eye rhymes. Half/slant rhyme is… …
3half rhyme — n. SLANT RHYME, esp. when the result of consonance * * * also called near rhyme, slant rhyme, or oblique rhyme in prosody, two words that have only their final consonant sounds and no preceding vowel or consonant sounds in common (such …
4verse — 01. Each student had to memorize ten [verses] from the poem as homework. 02. The mullah quoted a [verse] from the Koran. 03. I only know the first couple of [verses] from the song. 04. The national anthem of Greece is 158 verses long. 05. What do …
5Half the World Away — Song infobox Name = Half the World Away Artist = Oasis Album = The Masterplan Released = December 18, 1994 track no = 10 Recorded = October 1994 at Congress House Studio, Austin, Texas Genre = Rock, Britpop Length = 4:25 Writer = Noel Gallagher… …
6Alliterative verse — The Old English epic poem Beowulf is written in alliterative verse. In prosody, alliterative verse is a form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal structuring device to unify lines of poetry, as opposed to other devices such as rhyme.… …
7Political verse — (Greek: Politikos stichos, Πολιτικός στίχος), also known as Decapentasyllabic verse (from Greek dekapentasyllabos, δεκαπεντασύλλαβος, lit. 15 syllable ) is a metric form in Modern Greek poetry. It is an iambic verse of fifteen syllables and has… …
8alliterative verse — ▪ literature early verse of the Germanic languages in which alliteration, the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or stressed syllables, is a basic structural principle rather than an occasional embellishment. Although… …
9Heroic verse — consists of the rhymed iambic line or heroic couplet. The term is used in English exclusively.In ancient literature, heroic verse was synonymous with the dactylic hexameter. It was in this measure that those typically heroic poems, the Iliad and… …
10alliterative verse — All poetry written in Old Germanic languages uses a system of alliterative verse, the best examples of which can be found in the OLD ENGLISH poetic corpus. This form of meter doubtlessly originates among oral poets or SCOPS, who would have… …
