Snap Into A Slim Hymn: The Art of Epigram Pt. 2

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-If there is a “West,” all Semites and Aryans are part of it

-Arab Classicism and the House of Wisdom

-Al Ma’arri

-Afzaladdin

-Moses Ibn Ezra

-Sehnsucht

-Ibn Iyad

-Manjik

-Dick Davis

-Samuel Johnson’s “Rasselas”

-Proto-Imagism

-My long road to appreciating haiku

-Zen in the Art of Archery

-Matsuo Basho

-Ethan McGuire

-Kireji, Kigo, Jisei

-Minamoto no Shitago

-Howard Nemerov

-Derek Walcott

-Anne Stevenson

-Mary Jo Salter

-Motherhood and the feminine mystique

-John Frederick Nims

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List of the most common metrical feet: 
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)