Stock-Lake

Not a lack-hole, by and by.

Bait.
              Bide.
                              Vowel-bend, and  dipper-sip.

-Rife as broth!

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poets

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poetic terms

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As if the moon could haul through you …

Neil Fischer

From over the wall I could hear the laughter of women …

Mary-Sherman Willis

The bird's …

Mark Kirschen

Mute and entranced you lie- …

Harold Lewis Cook

My poor students, all I ask of them …

Dean Young

What we first see seems a shadow …

Robert Morgan

Not long ago, I studied medicine. …

Rafael Campo

Observe this schoolmaster: …

Harold Lewis Cook

The glossary

From aubade to zuihitsu, 207 definitions of the forms, figures, and schools that shape the line.