Gaelic poetry

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Gaelic poetry is the traditional verse literature of Gaelic-speaking peoples, expressing their history, mythology, and cultural identity through distinctive forms and oral and written styles.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Celtic literature
literary genre
oral literature
poetry tradition
associatedWith Gaelic-speaking peoples
developedIn Ireland NERFINISHED
Isle of Man NERFINISHED
Scotland NERFINISHED
hasCharacteristic alliteration
assonance
complex metre
consonance
formulaic expressions
internal rhyme
oral performance
strong musicality
use of parallelism
use of refrain
hasForm ballad
elegy
love lyric
lullaby
narrative poem
praise poetry
religious hymn
satire
work song
hasMainTheme cultural identity
exile
genealogy
heroism
history
lamentation
landscape
love
mythology
politics
religion
warfare
influenced Celtic Revival literature
modern Irish poetry
modern Scottish Gaelic literature
influencedBy Christian monastic culture
early Irish bardic tradition
partOf Gaelic literature NERFINISHED
relatedTo Gaelic song
bardic poetry
sean-nós singing
timePeriod early modern period
medieval period
modern period
transmittedBy manuscript culture
oral tradition
print culture
usesLanguage Irish
Manx Gaelic NERFINISHED
Scottish Gaelic NERFINISHED

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Gaels culturalTraditionsInclude Gaelic poetry