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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Cowboy poetry Creation stories Curses English similes Epic poetry Fable Fairy tale Folk belief Folk etymologies Folk metaphors Folk poetry Folk music Folksongs...

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...

of folk poetry became the quatrain (Azerbaijani: dördmisralı) rather than the couplets (Azerbaijani: beyt) more commonly employed in written poetry. Furthermore...

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...