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单词 political verse
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political verse

/pəˌlɪtɪkl ˈvəːs/
noun
1A verse or poem having a political theme. In later use also as a mass noun: political or socially engaged poetry.
2 Prosody. A form of metre used in secular (as opposed to ecclesiastical) Byzantine Greek poetry; poetry written in this metre.
  • The usual form in Byzantine Greek oral and ballad poetry, political verse has fifteen-syllable lines, usually consisting of two cola of 8 and 7 syllables with a caesura after the eighth syllable, each colon having one main accent..

Origin

Early 18th century; earliest use found in John Oldmixon (d. 1742), historian and political pamphleteer. From political + verse.

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