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They contain poems that are fully developed in form and expression while tending towards classical lyric genres (such as the sonnet and the terzina) and hints of Neosymbolism.
Lea Goldberg. 2009
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Goldberg enriched Hebrew poetry with the sonnet and terzina forms, while Ravikovitch, in Ahavat Tapuah ha-Zahav (The love of an orange, 1961), composed poems whose enchanting quality is based on biblical language, classical forms and intense yet sophisticated emotional power.
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The opening phrases of both octave and sestette are very fine; but the second quatrain and the second terzina, though with a quality of beauty, both seem somewhat to lack distinctness.
Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Hall Caine 1892
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