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38 relations: Advance Australia Fair, Amazing Grace, America the Beautiful, Anapaest, Australia, Ballad, Because I could not stop for Death, Caesura, Casey at the Bat, Christmas carol, Christopher Smart, Couplet, Emily Dickinson, Foot (prosody), Fourteener (poetry), George Gascoigne, Gilligan's Island, Hymn, Hymn tune, Hymnology, Iamb (poetry), It Came Upon the Midnight Clear, John Newton, Katharine Lee Bates, Long metre, Material Girl, Metre (hymn), Metre (poetry), National anthem, O Little Town of Bethlehem, Peter Dodds McCormick, Pokémon (anime), Spondee, Tam Lin, Tetrameter, The House of the Rising Sun, Trimeter, William Wordsworth.
Advance Australia Fair
"Advance Australia Fair" is the national anthem of Australia.
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Amazing Grace
"Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn published in 1779, with words written by the English poet and Anglican clergyman John Newton (1725–1807).
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America the Beautiful
"America the Beautiful" is an American patriotic song.
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Anapaest
An anapaest (also spelled anapæst or anapest, also called antidactylus) is a metrical foot used in formal poetry.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Ballad
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.
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Because I could not stop for Death
"Because I could not stop for Death" is a lyrical poem by Emily Dickinson first published posthumously in Poems: Series 1 in 1890.
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Caesura
An example of a caesura in modern western music notation. A caesura (. caesuras or caesurae; Latin for "cutting"), also written cæsura and cesura, is a break in a verse where one phrase ends and the following phrase begins.
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Casey at the Bat
"Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888" is a baseball poem written in 1888 by Ernest Thayer.
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Christmas carol
A Christmas carol (also called a noël, from the French word meaning "Christmas") is a carol (song or hymn) whose lyrics are on the theme of Christmas, and which is traditionally sung on Christmas itself or during the surrounding holiday season.
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Christopher Smart
Christopher Smart (11 April 1722 – 21 May 1771), was an English poet.
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Couplet
A couplet is a pair of successive lines of metre in poetry.
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Emily Dickinson
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet.
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Foot (prosody)
The foot is the basic repeating rhythmic unit that forms part of a line of verse in most Western traditions of poetry, including English accentual-syllabic verse and the quantitative meter of classical ancient Greek and Latin poetry.
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Fourteener (poetry)
In poetry, a fourteener is a line consisting of 14 syllables, which are usually made of seven iambic feet for which the style is also called iambic heptameter.
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George Gascoigne
George Gascoigne (c. 15357 October 1577) was an English poet, soldier and unsuccessful courtier.
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Gilligan's Island
Gilligan's Island is an American sitcom created and produced by Sherwood Schwartz via United Artists Television.
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Hymn
A hymn is a type of song, usually religious, specifically written for the purpose of adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification.
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Hymn tune
A hymn tune is the melody of a musical composition to which a hymn text is sung.
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Hymnology
Hymnology (from Greek ὕμνος hymnos, "song of praise" and -λογία -logia, "study of") is the scholarly study of religious song, or the hymn, in its many aspects, with particular focus on choral and congregational song.
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Iamb (poetry)
An iamb or iambus is a metrical foot used in various types of poetry.
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It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
"It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" (1849) – sometimes rendered as "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" – is a poem and Christmas carol written by Edmund Sears, pastor of the Unitarian Church in Wayland, Massachusetts.
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John Newton
John Newton (– 21 December 1807) was an English Anglican clergyman who served as a sailor in the Royal Navy for a period, and later as the captain of slave ships.
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Katharine Lee Bates
Katharine Lee Bates (August 12, 1859 – March 28, 1929) was an American songwriter.
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Long metre
Long Metre or Long Measure, abbreviated L.M. or LM, is a poetic metre consisting of four line stanzas, or quatrains, in iambic tetrameter with alternate rhyme pattern a-b-a-b. The term is also used in the closely related area of hymn metres.
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Material Girl
"Material Girl" is a song recorded by American singer Madonna for her second studio album Like a Virgin (1984).
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Metre (hymn)
A hymn metre (Am. meter) indicates the number of syllables for the lines in each stanza of a hymn.
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Metre (poetry)
In poetry, metre is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.
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National anthem
A national anthem (also state anthem, national hymn, national song, etc.) is generally a patriotic musical composition that evokes and eulogizes the history, traditions, and struggles of its people, recognized either by a nation's government as the official national song, or by convention through use by the people.
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O Little Town of Bethlehem
"O Little Town of Bethlehem" is a popular Christmas carol.
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Peter Dodds McCormick
Peter Dodds McCormick (1834?30 October 1916), a Scottish-born schoolteacher, was the composer of the Australian national anthem "Advance Australia Fair".
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Pokémon (anime)
, abbreviated from the Japanese title of and currently advertised in English as Pokémon: The Series, is a Japanese anime television series, which has been adapted for the international television markets, concurrently airing in 98 countries worldwide.
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Spondee
A spondee (Latin: spondeus) is a metrical foot consisting of two long syllables, as determined by syllable weight in classical meters, or two stressed syllables in modern meters.
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Tam Lin
Tam (or Tamas) Lin (also called Tamlane, Tamlin, Tambling, Tomlin, Tam Lien, Tam-a-Line, Tam Lyn, or Tam Lane) is a character in a legendary ballad originating from the Scottish Borders.
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Tetrameter
In poetry, a tetrameter is a line of four metrical feet.
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The House of the Rising Sun
"The House of the Rising Sun" is a traditional folk song, sometimes called "Rising Sun Blues".
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Trimeter
In poetry, a trimeter (Greek for "three measure") is a metre of three metrical feet per line.
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William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_metre
