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From the Italian, meaning "stopping-place" or "room." A recurring pattern of two or more lines of verse, poetry's equivalent to the paragraph in prose. It is the basic organizational principle of most formal poetry. |
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Any recurrent pattern of rime within an individual poem. It is usually described by using lowercase letters to represent each end rime--a for the first rime, b for the second, and so on--in the order in which the rimed words occur. |
Rime scheme |
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A word, phrase, line, or stanza repeated at intervals in a song or poem. The repeated chorus of a song is "this." |
A 'Refrain' |
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Traditionally, a song that tells a story. "These" are characteristically compressed, dramatic, and objective in their narrative style. |
Ballad |
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Anonymous narrative songs, usually in ballad meter. They were originally created for oral performance, often resulting in many versions of a single balled. |
Folk ballads |
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The most common pattern for a ballad, consisting of four lines rimed a b c b, in which the first and third lines have four metrical feet (usually eight syllables) and used in hymns, is a variation rimed a b a b. |
Ballad stanza |
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A ballad not meant for singing, written by a sophisticated poet for educated readers, rather than arising from the anonymous oral tradition. |
Literary ballad |
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A type of folk music originally developed by African Americans in the South, often about some pain or loss. "These" lyrics traditionally consist of three-line stanzas in which two identical lines are followed by a third, riming line. The influence of the this style of music is fundamental in virtually all styles of contemporary pop--jazz, rap, rock, gospel, country, and rhythm and blues. |
Blues |
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A popular style of music that emerged in the 1980's in which lyrics are spoken or chanted over a steady beat, usually sampled or prerecorded. These lyrics are almost always rimed and very rhythmic--syncopating a heavy metrical beat in a manner similar to jazz. |
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