Shalini waited with trepidation for Amar at the Navjot Nagar bus stop. The incessant rains had submerged the tiled flooring where she stood. Her green salwar suit stuck to her drenched skin as if to protect her from cold, icy
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This poem is a La Courante type of poem. It is one of France’s first classic free verse poems. Two stanzas form this poem. The first stanza is a model for the second stanza (in a way, a kind of
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I wrote this as a celebration of Pride Month-June. What is a frame story? Frame story, also called frame tale, overall unifying story within which one or more tales are related. In the single story, the opening and closing constitutes a
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Shelly carefully dressed up Ryan for the dinner that night. She had taken great pains in shopping for him last week after her mother confirmed the dinner date. He looked smart, she admitted to herself. The blue blazer with a
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An Ode is a poem written in praise of something or someone. It can be rhyming or non-rhyming. This poem is written to accept and assert upon the rights of LGBTQIA+ community and to make the society aware that they
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This titled syllabic form, created by Betty Ann Whitney, has exactly seven lines. Syllable Pattern: 3/4/3/4/3/4/7 The song sung By the hillside Caught in breeze Flows seamlessly To strange lands Lands distinctly Yet is heard by true lover.
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This is a Lilibonelle form of poetry. Lilibonelle’s basic form has four stanzas; each stanza has four lines, in which each line of the first stanza is consecutively repeated as the first line of each of the other stanzas. This
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Never seen anything that can make a caged bird sing
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The flamenca is a Spanish quintain (or 5-line stanza) form with a staccato rhythm meant to replicate the click of heels by flamenco dancers. The flamenca goes by a few other names, including seguidilla gitana (or Gypsy seguidilla), playera, and/or
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He stood clutching the ticket in his wet palms, Looking acrimoniously at the merry crowd on the ride Feeling their adrenaline rush as they zoomed In and out of sight as others watched with pride. His invisible torment rose
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