Most musical words are rhymed lines in metrical patterns, which is surely a formal characteristic of poetry, and to refuse the name of poetry to, say, the genre of light verse would be to deny a place ...

For such readers, the constraint imposed by the euphonic, metrical patterns of rhyme supposedly aid in the rote recital of any didactic, cultural messages communicated by the poet.

Brennan O'Donnell, Numerous Verse: A Guide to the Stanzas and Metrical Structures of Wordsworth's Poetry, Studies in Philology, Vol. 86, No. 4, Texts and Studies, 1989. Numerous Verse: A Guide to the ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: ‘Thanatta Suthra’, a prosody introduced by an unconventional linguist to help learn the rhythmic pattern of Malayalam poetry in an easier wa ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: ‘Thannatta Suthra’, a prosody introduced by an unconventional linguist to help learn the rhythm pattern of Malayalam poetry in an easier way ...