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   Web Sites
  • Are There Lines in Folk Poetry? - Article by B. Hayes and M. MacEachern discussing meters and stanza structures in English folk poetry.
    www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/linguistics/people/hayes/lines.pdf
  • Brazilian Folklore: Cordel Literature - Folk poetry of northeastern Brazil.
    www.maria-brazil.org/cordel.htm
  • Drinking from the Well of Poetry - Nadia G. Yaqub's dissertation on tradition, composition, and identity in the oral Palestinian poetry duel (PDF format).
    www.unc.edu/~yaqub/pdfdiss/diss.html
  • Folk Poetry - Essay on Brazil's "Literatura de Cordel", oral poetry that is printed in chapbooks as well.
    campina.com.br/braulio/folk1.htm
  • Traditional Malay Verse - Pantun - Brief article on the Malay quatrain, which used to be an integral part of Malay life.
    www.kampungnet.com.sg/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=2&page=1

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