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Card 6

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although poetry and mathematics often seem to be incompatible areas of study, this seeks to connect them

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Card 7

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one of the principal forms of music and poetry in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century France

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Card 8

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originated in Malaysia in the fifteenth-century as a short folk poem, typically made up of two rhyming couplets that were recited or sung

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Card 9

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typically takes on themes such as struggle, despair, and sex

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Card 10

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not unlike the Shakespearean sonnet in trajectory, a form of poetic argument consisting of three stanzas

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Card 11

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plants one foot in prose, the other in poetry, both heels resting precariously on banana peels

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Card 12

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from the Latin word for ‘patchwork,' a poetic form made up of lines from poems by other poets

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Card 13

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refers to a lineage of creative works that idealize rural life and landscapes

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Card 14

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began over seven hundred years ago in Japan to encourage the collaborative composition of poems

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Card 15

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examples found in many European languages, and the origin of the form dates back to medieval French poetry

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