What Poetry Form Am I?
Joel posted a link to this over on his blog. I thought I'd post my results here, cuz I think they're amusing.
Apparently...
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Or, if I were not Terza Rima...
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth. - Oscar Wilde
Joel posted a link to this over on his blog. I thought I'd post my results here, cuz I think they're amusing.
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1 Comments:
Caitlin the English geek to the rescue:
Terza rima is a form of poetry that developed in early Renaissance Italy; Dante's Divine Comedy was composed in terza rima. It is a system of three line stanzas, with a rhyming pattern of aba, bcb, cbc, dcd . . . etc. Robert Browning, T.S. Eliot, and John Milton all use this.
Ottava rima is also from the Italian Renaissance, except somewhat later. It has a rhyme scheme of abababcc. Boccaccio, Boiardo and Ariosto all used this scheme in their epic poetry; in English it is exemplified best by Byron.
So, I don't know if that helped . . . but I have revealed my status as Queen of Geek.
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