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The first lines of the Iliad Great Seal Script character for poetry, ancient China Poetry Greek word poiesis literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings. Any particular instance of poetry is called a poem and is written by a poet .
Poets use a variety of techniques called poetic devices, such as assonance , alliteration , euphony and cacophony , onomatopoeia , rhythm (via metre ), and sound symbolism , to produce musical or other artistic effects. They also frequently organize these effects intos, which may be strict or loose, conventional or invented by the poet. Poetic structures vary dramatically by language and cultural convention, but they often use rhythmic metre (patterns of syllable stress or syllable (mora) weight ). They may also use repeating patterns of phonemes , phoneme groups, tones (phonemic pitch shifts found in tonal languages ), words, or entire phrases. These include consonance (or just alliteration ), assonance (as in the dróttkvætt ), and rhyme schemes (patterns in rimes , a type of phoneme group). Poetic structures may even be semantic (e.g. the volta required in a Petrachan sonnet ).
Most written poems are formatted in verse : a series or stack of lines on a page, which follow the poetic structure. For this reason, verse has also become a synonym (a metonym ) for poetry. (Full article...
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