NYRA Poetry

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Poetryis defined as a form of literary art written by a poet in verse or in meter

as an expression of his emotions by using the various figures of speechlike similes and onomatopoeia, similes and metaphors. Poetry can be

distinguished from prose through the use of various techniques like

meter, rhyme and repetition and the emphasis on the beauty of

language. The prose is defined as an ordinary writing or speech written

without any metrical structure while poems usually use imagery and

association of words to convey emotions quickly.


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The recipe of loveThe recipe of love must always include

Some herbs and spices for fortitude;

A tablespoon of forgiveness -A clove of loyalty -

A cup of faith -

And a sprig of honesty;

A pinch of patience -

A teaspoon of trust -

A cup of friendship -

And a bit of lust;

Mix all these herbs and spices well -No other recipe could ever excel;

Add (Bride's Name) and (Groom's Name) for proper effect;

Then saute the whole in two cups of respect.

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Something WonderfulIts the start of something wonderful

The chance to start anew

A brand new life lies waiting

Thats tailor made for two

Its a beautiful beginning full of romance and delight

As you start each day with kisses

Share embraces through the night

There is so much to discover

So much fun youve yet to share

Lots of really great adventures

And many new ways to show you careTheres a future full of happiness

And more magic for you too

And it all begins to happen with those magic words I Do.

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From Easter WingsLord, who createdest man in wealth and store,

Though foolishly he lost the same,

Decaying more and more,

Till he becameMost poore:

With thee

O let me rise

As larks, harmoniously,

And sing this day thy victories,

Then shall the fall further the flight in me.

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From Vision and Prayer

Who

Are you

Who is born

In the next room

So loud to my own

That I can hear the womb

Opening and the dark run

Over the ghost and the dropped son

Behind the wall thin as a wrens bone?In the birth bloody room unknown

To the burn and turn of time

And the heart print of man

Bows no baptism

But dark alone

Blessing on

The wild

Child.

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Immortality by Matthew Arnold

We leave the brutal world to take its way,

And, Patience! in another life, we say

The world shall be thrust down, and we up-borne.

And will not, then, the immortal armies scorn

The world's poor, routed leavings? or will they,

Who fail'd under the heat of this life's day,

Support the fervours of the heavenly morn?

No, no! the energy of life may be

Kept on after the grave, but not begun;

And he who flagg'd not in the earthly strife,

From strength to strength advancing only he,

His soul well-knit, and all his battles won,

Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life.

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Poetry written such as the poem Immortality by Matthew Arnold is piece of

literature written by a English poet in meter or verse expressing variousemotions which are expressed by the use of variety of techniques including

metaphors, similes and onomatopoeia.


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The poem Nightingales by Robert Bridges

Beautiful must be the mountains whence ye come,And bright in the fruitful valleys the streams wherefrom

Ye learn your song:Where are those starry woods? O might I wander there,

Among the flowers, which in that heavenly airBloom the year long!.

Nay, barren are those mountains and spent the streams:Our song is the voice of desire, that haunts our dreams,

A throe of the heart,

Whose pining visions dim, forbidden hopes profound,No dying cadence, nor long sigh can sound,For all our art.

Alone, aloud in the raptured ear of menWe pour our dark nocturnal secret; and then,

As night is withdrawnFrom these sweet-springing meads and bursting boughs of May,

Dream, while the innumerable choir of dayWelcome the dawn.

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Hiawatha's Departure from The Song of Hiawathaby

Henry Wadsworth LongfellowBy the shore of Gitchie Gumee,

By the shining Big-Sea-Water,

At the doorway of his wigwam,

In the pleasant Summer morning,Hiawatha stood and waited.

All the air was full of freshness,

All the earth was bright and joyous,

And before him through the sunshine,

Westward toward the neighboring forest

Passed in golden swarms the Ahmo,

Passed the bees, the honey-makers,

Burning, singing in the sunshine.

Bright above him shown the heavens,

Level spread the lake before him;

From its bosom leaped the sturgeon,


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Sparkling, flashing in the sunshine;

On its margin the great forest

Stood reflected in the water,

Every tree-top had its shadow,

Motionless beneath the water.

From the brow of HiawathaGone was every trace of sorrow,

As the fog from off the water,

And the mist from off the meadow.

With a smile of joy and triumph,

With a look of exultation,

As of one who in a vision

Sees what is to be, but is not,

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Enjambment

Comes from the French word for "to straddle". Enjambment is the

continuation of a sentence form one line or couplet into the next. An example by Joyce Kilmer

18861918 in his poem "Trees" is: I think that I shall never see A poem as lovely as a tree

Trees

by

Joyce Kilmer

I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest

Against the sweet earth's flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear

A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bossom snow has lain;

Who intimately lives with rain.


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Poems are made by fools like me,

But only God can make a tree.

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Name Poems

While a name verse poem can be as simple as using an adjective to describe

a person that begins with each letter of that person's name, these poems

can also be far more beautiful works of art. For example, here is a name

poem for a person named Alexis:

Alexis seems quite shy and somewhat frail,Leaning, like a tree averse to light,

Evasively away from her delight.X-rays, though, reveal a sylvan sprite,Intense as a bright bird behind her veil,

Singing to the moon throughout the night.

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Sonnets

The poems of William Shakespeare provide excellent types of poetry

examples for sonnets.

Sonnet 116" by Shakespeare

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments.

Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove:

O no! it is an ever-fixed mark

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wandering bark,Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not

Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle's compass come:

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

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Epic Poems

Epic Poems are long, serious poems that tell the story of a heroic figure.

Hiawatha's Departure from The Song o f Hiawathaby

Henry W adsworth Longfellow

By the shore of Gitchie Gumee,

By the shining Big-Sea-Water,

At the doorway of his wigwam,

In the pleasant Summer morning,

Hiawatha stood and waited.

All the air was full of freshness,

All the earth was bright and joyous,

And before him through the sunshine,

Westward toward the neighboring forest

Passed in golden swarms the Ahmo,

Passed the bees, the honey-makers,Burning, singing in the sunshine.

Bright above him shown the heavens,

Level spread the lake before him;

From its bosom leaped the sturgeon,

Aparkling, flashing in the sunshine;

On its margin the great forest

Stood reflected in the water,

Every tree-top had its shadow,

Motionless beneath the water.

From the brow of Hiawatha

Gone was every trace of sorrow,

As the fog from off the water,

And the mist from off the meadow.

With a smile of joy and triumph,


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With a look of exultation,

As of one who in a vision

Sees what is to be, but is not,

Stood and waited Hiawatha.

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Canzone Poetry Type

Canzone Poetry Type is usually a medieval Italian lyric poem, with five or sixstanzas and a shorter concluding stanza (or envoy). Canzone literally means

"song" in Italian.

Sonnet XIII from Canzoniere

byPetrarch

Quando fra l'altre donne ad ora ad oraAmor vien nel bel viso di costei,quanto ciascuna men bella di lei

tanto cresce 'l desio che m'innamora.

I' benedico il loco e 'l tempo e l'orache s alto miraron gli occhi miei,

e dico: Anima, assai ringraziar dei,che fosti a tanto onor degnata allora;

da lei ti ven l'amoroso pensiero,che mentre 'l segui al sommo ben t'invia,poco prezzando quel ch'ogni uom desia;

da lei vien l'animosa leggiadriach'al ciel ti scorge per destro sentero:s ch' i' vo gi de la speranza altero.

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Blank Verse

Blank Verse is Poetry that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. Blank

verse is often unobtrusive and the iambic pentameter form often resemblesthe rhythms of ordinary speech. William Shakespeare wrote most of his

plays in blank verse.

Excerpt from Macbeth

byWilliam Shakespeare

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,

To the last syllable of recorded time;And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player

That struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then is heard no more: it is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.

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Analogy Poetry Type

An Analogy is a likeness or similarity between things (a subject and ananalog) that are otherwise unlike. Analogy is the comparison of two pairswhich have the same relationship.

Nothing Gold Can Stay

byRobert Frost

Nature's first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf's a flower;

But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.

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Lyric Poetry

Lyric Poetry consists of a poem, such as a sonnet or an ode, that expresses

the thoughts and feelings of the poet. The term lyric is now commonlyreferred to as the words to a song. Lyric poetry does not tell a story which

portrays characters and actions. The lyric poet addresses the reader directly,portraying his or her own feeling, state of mind, and perceptions.

Dyingby

Emily Dickinson

I heard a fly buzz when I died;The stillness round my form

Was like the stillness in the airBetween the heaves of storm.

The eyes beside had wrung them dry,And breaths were gathering sureFor that last onset, when the king

Be witnessed in his power.

I willed my keepsakes, signed awayWhat portion of me I

Could make assignable,-and thenThere interposed a fly,

With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz,Between the light and me;

And then the windows failed, and thenI could not see to see.

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Irony

Irony illustrates a situation, or a use of language, involving some kind of

discrepancy. The result of an action or situation is the reverse of what isexpected. A famous example of irony is ''Water, water, every where, Nor

any drop to drink' in the Ancient Mariner.

Rime of the Ancient Marinerby

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is an ancient Mariner,And he stoppeth one of three.

'By thy long grey beard and glittering eye,Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?

The bridegroom's doors are opened wide,And I am next of kin;

The guests are met, the feast is set:Mayst hear the merry din.'

He holds him with his skinny hand,"There was a ship," quoth he.

'Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!'Eftsoons his hand dropped he.

He holds him with his glittering eyeThe Wedding-Guest stood still,

And listens like a three years' child:The Mariner hath his will.

The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone:He cannot choose but hear;

And thus spake on that ancient man,The bright-eyed Mariner.

"The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared,Merrily did we drop

Below the kirk, below the hill,Below the lighthouse top.

The sun came up upon the left,Out of the sea came he!

And he shone bright, and on the rightWent down into the sea.


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Higher and higher every day,

Till over the mast at noon"

The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast,

For he heard the loud bassoon.

The bride hath paced into the hall,

Red as a rose is she;

Nodding their heads before her goes

The merry minstrelsy.

The Wedding-Guest he beat his breast,

Yet he cannot choose but hear;

And thus spake on that ancient man,

The bright-eyed Mariner.

"And now the storm-blast came, and he

Was tyrannous and strong:

He struck with his o'ertaking wings,

And chased us south along.

With sloping masts and dipping prow,

As who pursued with yell and blow

Still treads the shadow of his foe,

And foward bends his head,

The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast,

And southward aye we fled.

And now there came both mist and snow,

And it grew wondrous cold:

And ice, mast-high, came floating by,

As green as emerald.

And through the drifts the snowy clifts

Did send a dismal sheen:

Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken

The ice was all between.

The ice was here, the ice was there,

The ice was all around:

It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,


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Like noises in a swound!

At length did cross an Albatross,

Thorough the fog it came;

As it had been a Christian soul,We hailed it in God's name.

It ate the food it ne'er had eat,

And round and round it flew.

The ice did split with a thunder-fit;

The helmsman steered us through!

And a good south wind sprung up behind;

The Albatross did follow,

And every day, for food or play,

Came to the mariner's hollo!

In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,

It perched for vespers nine;

Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white,

Glimmered the white moonshine."

'God save thee, ancient Mariner,

From the fiends that plague thee thus!

Why look'st thou so?'"With my crossbow

I shot the Albatross."

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Definition of Haiku Poetry Type

Haiku Poetry Type is a Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five,

seven, and five syllables. Haiku poetry originated in the sixteenth century and reflectson some aspect of nature and creates images.

None is travelling

by

Basho

None is travelling

Here along this way but I,

This autumn evening.

The first day of the year:

thoughts come - and there is loneliness;

the autumn dusk is here.

An old pond

A frog jumps in -

Splash!

Lightening -Heron's cry

Stabs the darkness

Clouds come from time to time -

and bring to men a chance to rest

from looking at the moon.

In the cicada's cry

There's no sign that can foretell

How soon it must die.

Poverty's child -

he starts to grind the rice,

and gazes at the moon.

Won't you come and see

loneliness? Just one leaf

from the kiri tree.


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Temple bells die out.

The fragrant blossoms remain.

A perfect evening!

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Ballad Poems

Ballad Poems are poems that tells a story similar to a folk tale or legend and often

has a repeated refrain. A ballad is often about love and often sung. A ballad is a story

in poetic form.

The Mermaid

by

Author Unknown

'Twas Friday morn when we set sail,

And we had not got far from land,

When the Captain, he spied a lovely mermaid,

With a comb and a glass in her hand.

Chorus

Oh the ocean waves may roll,

And the stormy winds may blow,

While we poor sailors go skipping aloft

And the land lubbers lay down below, below, belowAnd the land lubbers lay down below.

Then up spoke the Captain of our gallant ship,

And a jolly old Captain was he;

"I have a wife in Salem town,

But tonight a widow she will be."

Chorus

Then up spoke the Cook of our gallant ship,

And a greasy old Cook was he;

"I care more for my kettles and my pots,

Than I do for the roaring of the sea."

Chorus

Then up spoke the Cabin-boy of our gallant ship,

And a dirty little brat was he;

"I have friends in Boston town


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That don't care a ha' penny for me."

Chorus

Then three times 'round went our gallant ship,

And three times 'round went she,And the third time that she went 'round

She sank to the bottom of the sea.

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Refrain Poetry Term

The word 'Refrain' derives from the Old French word refraindre meaning to repeat.

Refrain Poetry Term is a phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated throughout a

poem, usually after each stanza.

The Raven

by

Edgar Allan Poe

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door

Only this, and nothing more."

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,

And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow

From my books surcease of sorrow sorrow for the lost LenoreFor the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore

Nameless here for evermore.

And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain

Thrilled me filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;

So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating

"'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door

Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door;

This it is, and nothing more,"


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Presently my heart grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,

"Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;

But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,

And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,

That I scarce was sure I heard you" -- here I opened wide the door;Darkness there, and nothing more.

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Definition of Odes

Odes are long poems which are serious in nature and written to a set structure. John

Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and "Ode To A Nightingale" are probably the mostfamous examples of this type of poem.

Ode To A Nightingale

by

John Keats

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains

My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,

Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains

One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,

But being too happy in thine happiness,

That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees

In some melodious plot

Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,

Singest of summer in full-throated ease.

O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been

Cool'd a long age in the deep-delved earth,

Tasting of Flora and the country green,Dance, and Provenal song, and sunburnt mirth!

O for a beaker full of the warm South,

Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,

With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,

And purple-stained mouth;

That I might drink, and leave the world unseen,

And with thee fade away into the forest dim:

Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget


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What thou among the leaves hast never known,

The weariness, the fever, and the fret

Here, where men sit and hear each other groan;

Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs,

Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies;

Where but to think is to be full of sorrowAnd leaden-eyed despairs,

Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes,

Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow.

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Lyric Poetry

Lyric Poetry consists of a poem, such as a sonnet or an ode, that expresses the

thoughts and feelings of the poet. The term lyric is now commonly referred to as thewords to a song. Lyric poetry does not tell a story which portrays characters and

actions. The lyric poet addresses the reader directly, portraying his or her own feeling,

state of mind, and perceptions.

Dying

by

Emily Dickinson

I heard a fly buzz when I died;

The stillness round my form

Was like the stillness in the air

Between the heaves of storm.

The eyes beside had wrung them dry,

And breaths were gathering sure

For that last onset, when the king

Be witnessed in his power.

I willed my keepsakes, signed away

What portion of me I

Could make assignable,-and then

There interposed a fly,

With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz,

Between the light and me;

And then the windows failed, and then

I could not see to see.

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Rhymes

Rhymes are types of poems which have the the repetition of the same or similar

sounds at the end of two or more words most often at the ends of lines. This technique

makes the poem easy to remember and is therefore often used in Nursery Rhymes.

There are several derivatives of the term rhyme which include Double rhyme, Triplerhyme, Rising rhyme, Falling rhyme, Perfect and Imperfect rhymes.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

All the King's horses, And all the King's men

Couldn't put Humpty together again!

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Literary Term

Prose is ordinary language that people use in writing such as poetry, stories, editorials,

books, etc. The word prose is derived from the Latin word 'prosa' meaning

straightforward.

Toad, hog, assassin, mirror

Prose Poem

by

Larry Levis

Toad, hog, assassin, mirror. Some of its favorite words, which are breath. Orhandwriting: the long tail of the y disappearing into a barn like a rodents, and

suddenly it is winter after all. After all what? After the ponds dry up in mid-Augustand the children drop pins down each canyon and listen for an echo.

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Cinquain Poetry Type and Term

Line 1 is one word (the title)

Line 2 is two words that describe the title.

Line 3 is three words that tell the action

Line 4 is four words that express the feelingLine 5 is one word that recalls the title

TreeStrong, Tall

Swaying, swinging, sighingMemories of summer

Oak

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Narrative Poetry

Narrative Poetry is found in different types of poetry such as Ballads, Epics, and Lays.

All of these examples are different kinds of narrative poems some of which are the

length of a book such as the Song of Hiawatha or the Iliad.

John Barleycorn

by

Robert Burns

There was three kings into the east,Three kings both great and high,

And they hae sworn a solemn oath

John Barleycorn should die.

They took a plough and plough'd him down,

Put clods upon his head,

And they hae sworn a solemn oath

John Barleycorn was dead.

But the cheerful Spring came kindly on,

And show'rs began to fall;

John Barleycorn got up again,And sore surpris'd them all.

The sultry suns of Summer came,

And he grew thick and strong,

His head weel arm'd wi' pointed spears,

That no one should him wrong.

The sober Autumn enter'd mild,

When he grew wan and pale;

His bending joints and drooping head

Show'd he began to fail.

His coulour sicken'd more and more,
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He faded into age;

And then his enemies began

To show their deadly rage.

They've taen a weapon, long and sharp,

And cut him by the knee;

Then ty'd him fast upon a cart,Like a rogue for forgerie.

They laid him down upon his back,

And cudgell'd him full sore;

They hung him up before the storm,

And turn'd him o'er and o'er.

They filled up a darksome pit

With water to the brim,

They heaved in John Barleycorn,

There let him sink or swim.

They laid him out upon the floor,

To work him farther woe,

And still, as signs of life appear'd,

They toss'd him to and fro.

They wasted, o'er a scorching flame,

The marrow of his bones;

But a Miller us'd him worst of all,

For he crush'd him between two stones.

And they hae taen his very heart's blood,

And drank it round and round;And still the more and more they drank,

Their joy did more abound.

John Barleycorn was a hero bold,

Of noble enterprise,

For if you do but taste his blood,

'Twill make your courage rise.

'Twill make a man forget his woe;

'Twill heighten all his joy:

'Twill make the widow's heart to sing,

Tho' the tear were in her eye.Then let us toast John Barleycorn,

Each man a glass in hand;

And may his great posterity

Ne'er fail in old Scotland!

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Verse

Verse is a single metrical line of poetry, or poetry in general (as opposed to prose

which uses grammatical units like sentences and paragraphs). "Verse" is also used as a

general term for metrical composition. Not all verse is poetry and sacred books such

as the Holy Bible are divided into small verses.

Daffodils

by

William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the milky way,

They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced, but they

Out-did the sparkling leaves in glee;

A poet could not be but gay,

In such a jocund company!

I gazedand gazedbut little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils

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