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Card 16

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traditionally invoking melancholy, love, longing, and metaphysical questions, are often sung by Iranian, Indian, and Pakistani musicians

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Card 17

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a journey composed of a prose poem and ending with a meaningful murmur of sorts

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Card 18

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often focusing on images from nature, emphasizes simplicity, intensity, and directness of expression

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Card 19

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a poem with such a rigid rhyme scheme, did not start off as a fixed form

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Card 20

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The earliest _____ were devotionals written by Patrick Carey, a seventeenth-century Benedictine monk

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Card 21

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invented by the Italian poet Dante Alighiere in the late thirteenth century to structure his three-part epic poem, The Divine Comedy

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Card 22

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One of the oldest Japanese forms, originated in the seventh century, and quickly became the preferred verse form in the Japanese Imperial Court

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Card 23

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from the Italian sonetto, which means ‘a little sound or song,' a popular classical form that has compelled poets for centuries

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Card 24

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the thirty-nine-line form is attributed to Arnaut Daniel, the Provencal troubadour of the twelfth century

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Card 25

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dates back to ancient Greece and is named for the poet Sappho, who left behind many poem fragments written in an unmistakable meter

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