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Limerick
A humorous often nonsensical and sometimes risqeacute poem of five anapestic lines of which lines 1 2 and 5 are of three feet and rhyme and
Epilogue
A speech or short poem addressed to the spectators and recited by one of the actors after the conclusion of the play
pander
(1988)"] n [Middle English Pandare, character who procured for Troilus the love of Cressida in Troilus and Creseyde, poem by Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1342-1400)] : one who engages in pandering : panderer
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Ballade
through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each the stanzas concluding with a refrain and the whole poem with an envoy
Canto
One of the chief divisions of a long poem a book
Chanson de geste
Any Old French epic poem having for its subject events or exploits of early French history real or legendary and written originally in
Class day
of its course by exercises conducted by the members such as the reading of the class histories and poem the delivery of the class oration the planting of the class ivy etc
Declaim
To speak rhetorically to make a formal speech or oration to harangue specifically to recite a speech poem etc in public as a rhetorical exercise to practice public speaking as the students declaim twice a week
VerbarLenvoi
detached verses at the end of a literary composition serving to convey the moral or to address the poem to a particular person orig employed in old French poetry
Dithyramb
honor of Bacchus usually sung by a band of revelers to a flute accompaniment hence in general a poem written in a wild irregular strain
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