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    Heroic verse is a term that may be used to designate epic poems, but which is more usually used to describe the meter(s) in which those poems are most...
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  • pentameter Foot (prosody) Heroic verse Hobsbaum, Philip. Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form. Routledge (1996) p.23 Piper, William Boward. "Heroic Couplet", in The New...
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    announced, and began alpha testing in September. On January 29, 2020, Heroic Verse's LIGHTNING MODEL cabinets received a North American release. On August...
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    Beatmania IIDX 27: Heroic Verse is the 27th installment of the Beatmania IIDX series. It takes on the theme of superheroes within a rhythm game multiverse...
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    Germanic heroic legend (‹See Tfd›German: germanische Heldensage) is the heroic literary tradition of the Germanic-speaking peoples, most of which originates...
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  • despised subject in the elevated language of heroic poetry and plays. Hudibras gave rise to a particular verse form, commonly called the "Hudibrastic". The...
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    Where the alexandrine has been adopted, it has frequently served as the heroic verse form of that language or culture, English being a notable exception....
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  • Heroic may mean: characteristic of a hero typical of heroic poetry or of heroic verse belonging to the Greek Heroic Age Heroic (esports), a Norwegian esports...
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    Epic poetry (redirect from Heroic poetry)
    and the strange theological verses attributed to Orpheus. Later tradition, however, has restricted the term 'epic' to heroic epic, as described in this...
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  • Quatrain (redirect from Heroic Stanza)
    but the most traditional and common are ABAA, AAAA, ABAB, and ABBA. The heroic stanza or elegiac stanza consists of the iambic pentameter, with the rhyme...
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  • Alexandrine (iambic hexameter): a 12-syllable iambic line adapted from French heroic verse. Example: the last line of each stanza in “The Convergence of the Twain”...
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  • they are referred to as heroic verse. However, Samuel Butler also used closed couplets in his iambic tetrameter Hudibrastic verse. "True wit is nature to...
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    Heroic drama is a type of play popular during the Restoration era in England, distinguished by both its verse structure and its subject matter. The subgenre...
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  • of English verse named for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, published in parts from 1663 to 1678. For the poem, Butler invented a mock-heroic verse structure...
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  • disordered, more full of beginnings than of ends, and varying in content from heroic verse in the ancient English alliterative metre to severe historical analysis...
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  • and Heroic Lay". A History of Old English Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-118-45323-0. Murdoch, Brian (1980). "Heroic Verse". In...
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  • Decasyllable (category Types of verses)
    French heroic epics (the chansons de geste) were most often composed in 10 syllable verses (from which, the decasyllable was termed "heroic verse"), generally...
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    Poetry (redirect from Verse form)
    are formatted in verse: a series or stack of lines on a page, which follow a rhythmic or other deliberate pattern. For this reason, verse has also become...
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  • historic or quasi-historic events reflected in Germanic heroic poetry, often expressed in alliterative verse. The period corresponds to the Germanic Wars in terms...
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    students of linguistics from five to twenty. He gave courses in Old English heroic verse, history of English, various Old English and Middle English texts, Old...
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  • Recognitions. A humorous definition is included in 'The Banner: mock-heroic verse epic, Part 1: Sid' by Robin Gordon: In any moment of such crisis / one...
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  • narrator and characters; the entire story is usually written in metered verse. Narrative poems do not need to rhyme. The poems that make up this genre...
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  • Riding rhyme is an early form of heroic verse. It has been described variously as a couplet rhyme, in five accents, and as a decasyllabic couplet. It is...
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    A verse is formally a single metrical line in a poetic composition. However, verse has come to represent any grouping of lines in a poetic composition...
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    Verse drama is any drama written significantly in verse (that is: with line endings) to be performed by an actor before an audience. Although verse drama...
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  • and a few copies were printed in the same year. It is partly in rhymed heroic verse, like the stilted tragedies of the Howards and Thomas Killigrew, but...
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  • distichal verse forms are typical of classical Hebrew verse, these are more closely reminiscent of the distichal forms of old Germanic heroic verse. The language...
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    unusual or unexpected rhymes became known as Hudibrastic verse. It was a formal parody of heroic verse, and it was primarily used for satire. Jonathan Swift...
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    Society (1764) is a philosophical poem by novelist Oliver Goldsmith. In heroic verse of an Augustan style it discusses the causes of happiness and unhappiness...
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  • released in the region until the arcade release of beatmania IIDX 27 HEROIC VERSE in 2020. It was released by Konami for the PlayStation 2 on March 28...
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