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11 Cards in this Set
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morning poem
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aubade
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poem celebrating life's temporary quality and the need to "seize the day"
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Carpe diem
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memorial or funeral poem; one that mourns a death
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Elegy
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wedding song: poem celebrating marriage
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Epithalamion
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poem on travel
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Journey
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Poem on night
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Nocturne
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poem celebrating life in the country/ nature and the virtue of retreat from city life; the shepherd poem
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Pastoral
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"a long, lyric poem that is serious in subject and treatment, elevated in style, and elaborate in its stanza structure." (M.H. Abrams); often written to objects, historic events, times of day, or abstract concepts
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Ode
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poem written in praise of a specific season
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Seasonal
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poem describing a scene
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Topographical
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poem bidding farewell to life or to someone who died
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Valediction
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