classical verse
Traditional metered poetry
Classical verse refers to poetry following the metrical conventions of ancient Greek and Latin literature, where rhythm depends on patterns of long and short syllables rather than stressed and unstressed ones.
The term also describes any poetry adhering to traditional formal structures—fixed meters, rhyme schemes, and stanzaic patterns—as opposed to free verse: She preferred classical verse to modern experiments.
- neoclassicismMovement emulating antiquity's forms
- golden agePeriod of peak prosperity
- HellenisticOf post-Alexander Greek civilization
- ancient GreeceClassical Mediterranean civilization
- antiquityGreat age, ancient era
meter · rhyme · harmony · symmetry · Latin literature · Greek drama · allegory · stanza · oral tradition · elegy · lyric poetry · translations · ode · scansion · heroic couplet · epic · couplet · Homeric
- Arabic poetrydiwan, Adonis
- Chinese Poetryquatrains, nature poetry, love poetry, rhyme scheme, literary tradition
- Ghazal Poetrybait, diwan, divan, Mir, beloved
- Japanese poetrywaka, tanka, haiku, senryu, hokku
- Persian literaturePersian poetry, Rumi, Attar, Omar Khayyam, Hafiz
- Turkish Literaturemasnavi, court poetry, Snow, divan
classical versemodernist poetry
Experimental verse breaking tradition
experimental poetry · found poetry · sound poetry · spoken word · slam poetry
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