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Common Measure
12024-04-26T07:26:33-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e12131Common Measure Tag (Poetic Form)plain2024-04-26T07:26:33-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Poems in the "common measure," defined approximately as accented-syllabic verse in rhyming quatrains .
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12022-01-19T09:46:16-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Claude McKay, "The Barrier" (1919)5plain2024-05-12T11:33:41-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-19T09:39:47-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Claude McKay, "To One Coming North" (1922)3plain2024-05-12T12:52:05-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-04-12T16:34:44-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1J. Alpheus Butler, "The Dark Flower" (1928)2plain2024-05-06T12:22:18-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-04-14T06:38:50-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1A.R. Abbott, "'Neath the Crown and Maple Leaf" (1901)2plain2024-04-26T07:27:04-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-05T09:15:25-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1James A. Atkins, "The First Wireless Message" (1925)2plain2024-05-03T14:02:59-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-12-21T09:00:50-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Claude McKay, "A Memory of June" (1920)2plain2024-05-12T12:41:02-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-02T10:15:42-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Joseph S. Cotter, "Whatever Road" (1920)2plain2024-05-03T15:06:05-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-19T09:38:17-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Claude McKay, "The Easter Flower" (1921)2plain2024-05-12T20:27:30-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-06-24T13:36:45-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Otto Bohanan, "God Gave Us Song" (1918)2plain2024-05-04T08:25:37-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-28T15:38:21-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Otto Bohanan, "Go, Give the World" (1919)2plain2024-05-04T08:29:17-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1