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a cheerful hour, refrains

Originally Published: February 13, 2008

Not a true blog entry here so much as an attempt at auxiliary crowdsourcing: other than the ghazal, what poetic forms-- oral or written-- from non-European languages feature prominent repeated stanzas, "choruses," or refrains?
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Stephanie (also Steph; formerly Stephen) Burt is a poet, literary critic, and professor. In 2012, the...

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