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My name is Joy, and I love to write. Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground. Kiya's gift. I love it!
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A simple quiz on poetry forms. I bet you'll have no problems figuring out the right answers, especially ff you are a bard, a poet, or just a plain poetry enthusiast like me; however, if you miss, this might be just the occasion to look them up. A good page on this site for poetry forms is:
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1. Poetry Form Term:
 What is a carmen?
       A quiet, meditative poem        
       A visual poem that has a specific shape with each line in a different color        
       A short form of verse with an everyday subject        
       An epic poem about colors especially the red hues        
       Song or lyrics        
2. Poetry Forms:
 A medieval Italian lyric poetry form with five or six stanzas and a shorter concluding half-stanza (or envoy), usually about love. The poet Petrarch was a master in using it.
       Burlesque        
       Canzone        
       Carpe Diem        
       Terza Rima        
       Quatrain        
3. Poetry Forms:
 What is a 14 line rhyming poem called, which ends with a couplet and follows a certain meter according to the language it is written in?
       Sestina        
       Terza Rima        
       Senryu        
       Sonnet        
       Villanelle        
4. Poetry Forms:
 A type of poetry with stanzas of seven lines in iambic pentameter. It was introduced by Geoffrey Chaucer.
       Terza Rima        
       Tercet        
       Rhyme Royal        
       Sestina        
       Ballade        
5. Poetry Forms:
 A long, serious poetry form that tells the story of a heroic figure is:
       Epigram        
       Epitaph        
       Epithalamium        
       Epic        
       Ode        
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