From A Poets Glossary. First namenickname of the person in the poem. A more general category is visual poetry--in which the shape of the poem in.
Such a poem--which is offered in the shape of its subject--is called a concrete poem.
The most obvious epic formulas are the fixed epithets stereotyped descriptive phrases that can be varied in different places in the poetic line to suit the demands of the metreThese stock expressions have the twofold function of lightening the oral poets task. Poetry should treat Of lofty things Soaring thoughts And birds with wings. The second and fourth lines of each stanza are repeated as the first and third lines of the next stanza. Epic formula convention of language and theme peculiar to oral epic poetry that is often carried over to the written form.