Folk poetry (sometimes referred to as poetry in action) is poetry that is part of a society's folklore, usually part of their oral tradition. When sung...
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popular. In Serbian poetry, the decasyllable is the only form employed. Balto-Finnic (e.g. Estonian, Finnish, Karelian) folk poetry uses a form of trochaic...
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Turkish literature (section Folk poetry)
In folk poetry—which is by far the tradition's dominant genre—this basic fact led to two major consequences in terms of poetic style: folk poetry made...
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Ballad (redirect from Ballad (poetry))
Johnson on the multi-volume Scots Musical Museum, a miscellany of folk songs and poetry with original work by Burns. Around the same time, he worked with...
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From Jewish Folk Poetry, Op. 79, is a song cycle for soprano, contralto, tenor and piano (or orchestra) by Dmitri Shostakovich. It uses texts taken from...
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Folklore of Finland (section Folk poetry)
own unique character. Folk poetry collection trips, starting from the 19th century, have resulted in the world's largest folk poetry archive, which is a...
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Folklore (redirect from Folk Culture)
Cowboy poetry Creation stories Curses English similes Epic poetry Fable Fairy tale Folk belief Folk etymologies Folk metaphors Folk poetry Folk music Folksongs...
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Kalevala (section Folk metal)
first in western Finland, because European rhymed poetry became more common in Finland. Finnish folk poetry was first written down in the 17th century and...
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Azerbaijani literature (redirect from Azerbaijani poetry)
of folk poetry became the quatrain (Azerbaijani: dördmisralı) rather than the couplets (Azerbaijani: beyt) more commonly employed in written poetry. Furthermore...
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that the art of poetry may predate literacy, and developed from folk epics and other oral genres. Others, however, suggest that poetry did not necessarily...
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