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  2. Rhyme scheme - Wikipedia

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    Rhyme scheme. A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other. An example of the ABAB rhyming scheme, from "To Anthea, who may Command him Anything", by Robert Herrick :

  3. List of symbols - Wikipedia

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    Period-after-opening symbol (on cosmetics as 6M, 12M, 18M, etc.) U+2602 ☂ UMBRELLA - keep dry. U+2614 ☔ UMBRELLA WITH RAIN DROPS - keep dry. Japanese postal mark. ℮, the European estimated sign U+212E. Inventory tracking symbols. Barcode such as a Universal Product Code. QR code.

  4. The Road Not Taken - Wikipedia

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    The Road Not Taken. " The Road Not Taken " is a narrative poem by Robert Frost, first published in the August 1915 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, [1] and later published as the first poem in the 1916 poetry collection, Mountain Interval. Its central theme is the divergence of paths, both literally and figuratively, although its interpretation ...

  5. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats - Wikipedia

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    Print. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) is a collection of whimsical light poems by T. S. Eliot about feline psychology and sociology, published by Faber and Faber. It serves as the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber 's 1981 musical Cats . Eliot wrote the poems in the 1930s and included them, under his assumed name "Old Possum", in letters ...

  6. The Naming of Cats - Wikipedia

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    The Naming of Cats. " The Naming of Cats " is a poem in T. S. Eliot 's 1939 poetry book Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. It was adapted into a musical number in Andrew Lloyd Webber 's 1981 musical Cats, and has also been quoted in other films, notably Logan's Run (1976). The poem describes to humans how cats get their names.

  7. Metrical foot - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The foot is the basic repeating rhythmic unit that forms part of a line of verse in most Indo-European traditions of poetry, including English accentual-syllabic verse and the quantitative meter of classical ancient Greek and Latin poetry. The unit is composed of syllables, and is usually two, three, or four syllables in length.

  8. Poems by Edgar Allan Poe - Wikipedia

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    Alone (Poe) "Alone" by Edgar Allan Poe. " Alone " is a 22-line poem originally written in 1829, and left untitled and unpublished during Poe's lifetime. The original manuscript was signed "E. A. Poe" and dated March 17, 1829. [ 1] In February of that year, Poe's foster mother Frances Allan had died.

  9. Caesura - Wikipedia

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    Caesura. A caesura ( / siˈzjʊərə /, pl. caesuras or caesurae; Latin for "cutting"), also written cæsura and cesura, is a metrical pause or break in a verse where one phrase ends and another phrase begins. It may be expressed by a comma (, ), a tick ( ), or two lines, either slashed ( //) or upright ( || ). In time value, this break may ...