... is easier to memorize, a poem or a chapter in your biology text book?"(Sherriffs, Poetry Discussion). That is because its syntax and rhyme scheme facilitates memorization in the human mind. It is this syntax which gives poetry its defining characteristics. Poetry is form of literature, spoken or ... These poems "are composed in the unrhymed, four-beat alliterative style characteristic of Old English poetry..."(Where The Arts Live n. pag.) Poets during the English Renaissance of the 14th century began to construct poems referred to as sonnets. These Poets were characterized by their str...

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... centuries Chaucerian poets in both England and Scotland labeled Chaucer "the master of rhetoric and eloquent diction- (Horobin, 2). The following quotations from John Lydgate's Life of Our Lady (ll. 1628-34) is typical of the fifteenth-century response to Chaucer's linguistic legacy: And eke my ... poems, which will be explained further when talking about Chaucer's meter. According to "The Language from Chaucer to Shakespeare- described on the Bartleby Web site, though this final -e died out by the 1500's, it is probable that Chaucer's use of the final -e was for metrical purposes- to c...

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