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Press Release: Poetry.ro Launches a Free Online Text and Poetry Analysis Platform

Nicolae Sfetcu — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:52:52 +0000

Poetry.ro has launched a new free online application designed to help writers, students, editors, teachers and poetry enthusiasts analyze, improve and explore written text directly in their web browser.
Available at poetry.ro, the new Text & Poetry Analyzer combines general-purpose text statistics with specialized tools for poetry analysis, text transformation and literary exploration. The application runs on a single web page and requires no registration.

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Poetry Kaleidoscope

Nicolae Sfetcu — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 07:05:57 +0000

Introduction in poetry: nature of poetry, tools, history, terms (periods, styles and movements, technical means, tropes, measures of verse, verse forms, national poetry… Poetry is traditionally a written art form (although there is also an ancient and modern poetry which … Read More

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Nature of Poetry

Nicolae Sfetcu — Sat, 05 Sep 2020 07:47:09 +0000

(The Parnassus (1511) by Raphael: famous poets recite alongside the nine Muses atop Mount Parnassus.) Sound Perhaps the most vital element of sound in poetry is rhythm. Often the rhythm of each line is arranged in a particular meter. Different … Read More

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Poetry

Nicolae Sfetcu — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 02:57:12 +0000

Poetry (ancient Greek: ποιεω (poieo) = I create) is traditionally a written art type (even though there’s also an ancient and contemporary poetry which relies primarily upon oral or pictorial representations) in which human language is utilized for its aesthetic … Read More

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Poetry translation

Nicolae Sfetcu — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:22:39 +0000

Douglas Hofstadter Poetry presents special challenges to translators, given the importance of a text’s formal aspects, in addition to its content. In his influential 1959 paper “On Linguistic Aspects of Translation”, the Russian-born linguist and semiotician Roman Jakobson went so … Read More

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Harold Morton Landon Translation Award

Nicolae Sfetcu — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:23:32 +0000

Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, 1980: Edmund Keeley, for Ritsos in Parentheses. The Harold Morton Landon Translation Award is a U.S. literary award given by the Academy of American Poets to recognize a published translation of poetry from any language … Read More

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