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  1. Poetry - Form, Rhyme, Meter | Britannica

    Feb 6, 2026 · For a poem is composed of internal and intellectual forms as well as forms externally imposed and preexisting any particular instance, and these may be sufficient without regular …

  2. poetry - Kids | Britannica Kids | Homework Help

    Poetry is a type of literature, or artistic writing, that attempts to stir a reader’s imagination or emotions. The poet does this by carefully choosing and arranging language for its meaning, sound, and rhythm.

  3. poetry summary | Britannica

    Poetry, literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm.

  4. poetry - Students | Britannica Kids | Homework Help

    The sounds and syllables of language are combined by authors in distinctive, and often rhythmic, ways to form the literature called poetry. Language can be used in several…

  5. Metre | Definition, Types & Examples | Britannica

    Metre, in poetry, the rhythmic pattern of a poetic line. Various principles, based on the natural rhythms of language, have been devised to organize poetic lines into rhythmic units.

  6. Foot | Rhythm, Meter, Poetry | Britannica

    The prevailing kind and number of feet, revealed by scansion, determines the metre of a poem. In classical (or quantitative) verse, a foot, or metron, is a combination of two or more long and short …

  7. Free verse | Modernist, Imagism, Rhyme-less | Britannica

    Free verse, poetry organized to the cadences of speech and image patterns rather than according to a regular metrical scheme. It is “free” only in a relative sense.

  8. Poetry Portal | Britannica

    Poetry, literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm.

  9. Poetry - Imagery, Metaphor, Rhyme | Britannica

    Jan 2, 2026 · To reply firmly that poetry is not religion and must not promise what religion does is to preserve a useful distinction; nevertheless, the religions of the world, if they have nothing else in …

  10. Poetry Definition & Meaning | Britannica Dictionary

    POETRY meaning: 1 : the writings of a poet poems; 2 : something that is very beautiful or graceful