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Meaning of IDYLL

Pronunciation:  'Idl

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  a short descriptive poem of rural or pastoral life
  2. [n]  a musical composition that evokes rural life
  3. [n]  an episode of such pastoral or romantic charm as to qualify as the subject of a poetic idyll
 
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 Synonyms: bucolic, eclogue, pastorale
 
 See Also: composition, episode, musical composition, opus, pastoral, piece, piece of music

 

 

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 Related Terms: alba, anacreontic, balada, ballad, ballade, bucolic, canso, chanson, clerihew, dirge, dithyramb, eclogue, elegy, English sonnet, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, georgic, ghazel, haiku, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, jingle, limerick, lyric, madrigal, monody, narrative poem, nursery rhyme, ode, palinode, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, poem, prothalamium, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, Sapphic ode, satire, sestina, Shakespearean sonnet, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, tanka, tenso, tenzone, threnody, triolet, troubadour poem, verse, verselet, versicle, villanelle, virelay
 

 

 

 

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