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tanka: a Tibetan religious painting on fabric; a form of Japanese poetry; the 1st and 3rd lines have five syllables and the 2nd, 4th, and 5th have seven syllables

sonnet collapse: a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme; compose a sonnet; praise in a sonnet

idyll collapse: an episode of such pastoral or romantic charm as to qualify as the subject of a poetic idyll

limerick collapse: a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba; port city in southwestern Ireland

madrigal collapse: an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices; follows a strict poetic form; sing madrigals; "The group was madrigaling beautifully"

roundelay collapse: a song in which a line or phrase is repeated as the refrain

rondeau collapse: a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas

epic collapse: very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale); "an epic voyage"; "of heroic proportions"; "heroic sculpture"; constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic; "epic tradition"

lyric collapse: a short poem of songlike quality; the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number; "his compositions always started with the lyrics"; "he wrote both words and music"; "the song uses colloquial language"; expressing deep personal emotion; "the dancer's lyrical performance"; used of a singer or singing voice that is light in volume and modest in range; "a lyric soprano"; of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way); "lyric poetry"; relating to or being musical drama; "the lyric stage"; write lyrics for (a song)

roundel collapse: round piece of armor plate that protects the armpit; English form of rondeau having three triplets with a refrain after the first and third

ballad collapse: a narrative poem of popular origin; a narrative song with a recurrent refrain

poem collapse: a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines

bucolic collapse: relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle; "pastoral seminomadic people"; "pastoral land"; "a pastoral economy"

rhyme collapse: correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds); compose rhymes; be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable; "hat and cat rhyme"

song collapse: the act of singing; "with a shout and a song they marched up to the gates"; a short musical composition with words; "a successful musical must have at least three good songs"; a distinctive or characteristic sound; "the song of bullets was in the air"; "the song of the wind"; "the wheels sang their song as the train rocketed ahead"; a very small sum; "he bought it for a song"

dirge collapse: a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person

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