GLOSSARY OF POETIC TERMS
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JINGLE
A short poem marked by catchy repetition.

(Compare Nursery Rhyme)

JONGLEUR (zhawn-GLOOR)
A public entertainer in the Middle Ages who recited or sang
chansons de geste, fabliaux, and other poems, sometimes of their own composition, but more often those written by the trouveres.
Sidelight: Prior to the 10th century, the term jongleur was applied to actors, acrobats, jugglers, and entertainers in general.
(See also Gleeman, Improvisatore, Minstrel, Meistersingers, Minnesingers, Troubadour)
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If I can read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me,
I know that it is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off,
I know that it is poetry.

---Emily Dickinson


I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and
poetry, that is, prose,--words in their best order, poetry,--the best words in their best order.

---Samuel Taylor Coleridge