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[rhymed-endings ]. A person writes a line and gives the last word to another person, who writes a second to rhyme with it, and so on. Dean Swift employs the term for a poem, each stanza of…The Celtic Twilight: The Last Gleeman
by W. B. Yeats Happy and Unhappy TheologiansRegina, Regina Pigmeorum, VeniThe Last Gleeman Michael Moran was born about 1794 off Black Pitts, in the Liberties of Dublin, in Faddle Alley.…The Devil's Dictionary: Leonine
by Ambrose Bierce LEGACYLETTUCELEONINE -adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at the end, as in this famous…Walt Whitman: To a Certain Civilian
To a Certain CivilianDid you ask dulcet rhymes from me? Did you seek the civilian's peaceful and languishing rhymes? Did you find what I sang erewhile so hard to follow? Why I was not singing…Poetry & Poets
Subjects » Geography » History » Language Arts » Mathematics » Science » Social Studies Homework Skills Writing | Research Speaking & Listening Studying Reference Sources…David McCord Biography
David McCordpoetBorn: 12/15/1897Birthplace: New York City Although he produced prose and poetry for adults, McCord is best remembered for the poetry he wrote for children. Of the more than 40…The Illiad: Preface.
Note to the Fifth Edition. Preface. In the spring of 1862 I was induced, at the request of some personal friends, to print, for private circulation only, a small volume of "…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: To Miss Ferrier
by Robert Burns Impromptu On Carron Iron WorksWritten By Somebody On The WindowTo Miss Ferrier Enclosing the Elegy on Sir J. H. Blair. Nae heathen name shall I prefix,…Dr. Seuss
Name at birth: Theodor Seuss GeiselDr. Seuss wrote and illustrated nearly 50 books of quirky children's verse during his lifetime, becoming one of the 20th century's most famous English-language…James Whitcomb Riley
Riley, James Whitcomb[1853-1916](2)Born in Greenfield, Indiana, in June, 1853, and died at Indianapolis, July, 1916. He occupied a field unique in American literature and probably no poet…Trending
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