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Life Style / Wine Grapes / Thomas: Complex V.rotundifolia (ie. Muscadine) cultivar.
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Ottava Rima

Lifestyle / Poetry / Ottava Rima: An italian stanza of eight 11-syllable lines, with the rhyme scheme abababcc, introduced by sir thomas wyatt and by w. B. Yeats in 'among school children' and 'sailing to byzantium,' and adapted by lo MORE

Palindromes

Lifestyle / Poetry / Palindromes: Thomas blount's english dictionary (1656) explains that 'palindromes (gr.) Are those sentences or verses, where the syllables are the same backward as forward. As a noble lady in queen elizabeths time MORE

Alexandrine

Entertainment / Literature / Alexandrine: A twelve-syllable line written in iambic hexameter. Alexandrines were especially popular in French poetry for drama between 1500-1800 CE, but their invention dates back to the late 1100s. The earliest MORE

Villanelle

Entertainment / Literature / Villanelle: A genre of poetry consisting of nineteen lines--five tercets and a concluding quatrain. The form requires that whole lines be repeated in a specific order, and that only two rhyming sounds occur in th MORE

Ubi sunt

Lifestyle / Poetry / Ubi sunt : A medieval commonplace that reveals the mutability of all things, the loss of all through death, by posing a series of questions that ask where the strong, the beautiful, and the good have gone. Examp MORE

Terza Rima

Entertainment / Literature / Terza Rima: A three-line stanza form with interlocking rhymes that move from one stanza to the next. The typical pattern is ABA, BCB, CDC, DED, and so on. Dante chose terza rima's tripartite structure as the basi MORE