LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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a fourteen line stanza
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a twenty line stanza
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a thirteen line stanza
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a fifteen line stanza
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Detailed explanation-1: -A Quinzaine is an unrhymed verse of fifteen syllables. The word comes from the French word quinze, meaning fifteen. The syllables are distributed over three lines so that there are seven syllables in the first line, five in the second line, and three in the third line (7/5/3). The first line makes a statement.
Detailed explanation-2: -Originating in France, a mainly octosyllabic poem consisting of between 10 and 15 lines and three stanzas.
Detailed explanation-3: -A quinzaine is a poem with three lines that has fifteen syllables. The first line has seven syllables, five in the second line and three in the third line (7/5/3). The first line makes a statement. The next two lines ask a question relating to that statement.
Detailed explanation-4: -Form. Each verse is a 15-syllable iambic verse, normally (and in accordance with the ancient Greek poetical tradition) the Political verse is without rhyme. So it is a type of blank verse of iambic heptameter. The meter consists of lines made from seven ("hepta") feet plus an unstressed syllable.
Detailed explanation-5: -A quinzaine is an unrhymed verse of fifteen syllables.