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Input (English): Context: Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences, and together with alliteration and consonance serves as one of the building blocks of verse. Assonance does not have to be a rhyme; the identity of which depends merely on sequence of both vowel and consonant sounds., A strophe is a poetic term originally referring to the first part of the ode in Ancient Greek tragedy, followed by the antistrophe and epode. The term has been extended to also mean a structural division of a poem containing stanzas of varying line length. Strophic poetry is to be contrasted with poems composed line-by-line non-stanzaically, such as Greek epic poems or English blank verse, to which the term "stichic" applies., Decasyllable (Italian: "decasillabo", French: "décasyllabe", Serbian: "","deseterac" ) is a poetic meter of ten syllables used in poetic traditions of syllabic verse. In languages with a stress accent (accentual verse), it is the equivalent of pentameter with iambs or trochees (particularly iambic pentameter)., Epode, in verse, is the third part of an ode, which followed the strophe and the antistrophe, and completed the movement., In poetry, a stanza (from Italian "stanza" , "room") is a grouped set of lines within a poem, usually set off from other stanzas by a blank line or indentation. Stanzas can have regular rhyme and metrical schemes, though stanzas are not strictly required to have either. There are many unique . Some stanzaic forms are simple, such as four-line quatrains. Other forms are more complex, such as the Spenserian stanza. Fixed verse poems, such as sestinas, can be defined by the number and form of their stanzas. The term "stanza" is similar to "strophe", though strophe is sometimes used to refer to irregular set of lines, as opposed to regular, rhymed stanzas., Poetry made up of lines of the same approximate meter and length, not broken up into stanzas, is called stichic (as opposed to stanzaic, e.g.). Most poetry from the Old English period is considered stichic. A more contemporary example is Joanna Baille's "Hay making", A laisse is a type of stanza, of varying length, found in medieval French literature, specifically medieval French epic poetry (the "chanson de geste"), such as "The Song of Roland". In early works, each laisse was made up of (mono) assonanced verses, although the appearance of (mono) rhymed laisses was increasingly common in later poems. Within a poem, the length of each separate laisse is variable (whereas the metric length of the verses is invariable, each verse having the same syllable length, typically decasyllables or, occasionally, alexandrines., Medieval French literature is, for the purpose of this article, literature written in Oïl languages (particularly Old French and early Middle French) during the period from the eleventh century to the end of the fifteenth century., The chanson de geste, Old French for "song of heroic deeds" (from "gesta": Latin: "deeds, actions accomplished"), is a medieval narrative, a type of epic poem that appears at the dawn of French literature. The earliest known poems of this genre date from the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries, before the emergence of the lyric poetry of the trouvères (troubadours) and the earliest verse romances. They reached their apogee in the period 11501250. , Alexandrine is a name used for several distinct types of verse line with related metrical structures, most of which are ultimately derived from the classical French alexandrine. The line's name derives from its use in the Medieval French "Roman d'Alexandre" of 1170, although it had already been used several decades earlier in "Le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne". The foundation of most alexandrines consists of two hemistichs (half-lines) of six syllables each, separated by a caesura (a word break, though often realized as a stronger syntactic break):, A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds (or the same sound) in two or more words, most often in the final syllables of lines in poems and songs. The word "rhyme" is also a "pars pro toto" ("a part (taken) for the whole") that means a short poem, such as a rhyming couplet or other brief rhyming poem such as nursery rhymes., Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain, is a sovereign state largely located on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe, with two large archipelagos, the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea and the Canary Islands off the North African Atlantic coast, two cities Ceuta and Melilla in the North African mainland and several small islands in the Alboran Sea near the Moroccan coast. Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar; to the north and northeast by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the west and northwest by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean. It is the only European country to have a border with an African country (Morocco) and its African territory accounts for nearly 5% of its population, mostly in the Canary Islands but also in Ceuta and Melilla., An epic poem, epic (from Latin "epicus", from the Ancient Greek adjective , "epikos", from , "epos", "word, story, poem"), epos (from Latin "epos", from Greek , "epos"), or epopee (from French "épopée", from neo-Latin "epopoeia", from Ancient Greek , "epopoiia") is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation. Milman Parry and Albert Lord have argued that the Homeric epics, the earliest works of Western literature, were fundamentally an oral poetic form. These works form the basis of the epic genre in Western literature. Nearly all Western epic (including Virgil's "Aeneid" and Dante's "Divine Comedy") self-consciously presents itself as a continuation of the tradition begun by these poems. Classical epic employs dactylic hexameter and recounts a journey, either physical (as typified by Odysseus in the "Odyssey") or mental (as typified by Achilles in the "Iliad") or both. Epics also tend to highlight cultural norms and to define or call into question cultural values, particularly as they pertain to heroism., Ode (from ) is a type of lyrical stanza. A classic ode is structured in three major parts: the "strophe", the "antistrophe", and the "epode". Different forms such as the "homostrophic ode" and the "irregular ode" also exist. It is an elaborately structured poem praising or glorifying an event or individual, describing nature intellectually as well as emotionally., Silva , in Spanish poetry , a strophe , laisse ( Sp. tirada ) consisting of in eleven - and seven - syllable lines : hendecasyllables ( endecasílabos ) and heptasyllables ( heptasílabos ) , the majority of which are rhymed although there is no fixed order or rhyme , nor is there a fixed number of lines . Silvas are used by persons of high rank , usually in soliloquies , and for highly emotional narration and description . The use of Silva can be found in Góngora 's Soledades ., Medieval Spain.
The Medieval period covers 400 years of different poetry texts and can be broken up into five categories, The Song of Roland is an epic poem based on the Battle of Roncevaux in 778, during the reign of Charlemagne. It is the oldest surviving major work of French literature and exists in various manuscript versions, which testify to its enormous and enduring popularity in the 12th to 14th centuries., Blank verse is poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always in iambic pentameter. It has been described as "probably the most common and influential form that English poetry has taken since the 16th century" and Paul Fussell has estimated that "about three-quarters of all English poetry is in blank verse.", Subject: silva , Relation: instance_of, Options: (A) adjective (B) article (C) battle (D) building (E) century (F) chanson de geste (G) comedy (H) culture (I) epic poem (J) event (K) final (L) five (M) genre (N) identity (O) land boundary (P) line (Q) literature (R) lyric poetry (S) mediterranean sea (T) meter (U) name (V) narrative (W) ocean (X) part (Y) period (Z) poem ([) poetry (\) portugal (]) rhyme (^) sequence (_) serbian (`) six (a) song (b) sound (c) stanza (d) state (e) syllable (f) term (g) territory (h) three (i) tragedy (j) two (k) vowel (l) word
Output (English): stanza