- collecting basin for area precipitation and a series of channels to conduct the water out of the area and toward the sea. - an interconnected group of streams. - collects water over a large area. - drains water toward the ocean.
A A A. Email. Poetry is dying. Actually, it's pretty dead already for all intents and purposes and the rise of performance poetry slams is doing nothing to help matters. I know, I used to be a performance poet. Poetry is dying. Actually, it's pretty dead already for all intents and purposes and the rise of performance poetry slams is doing nothing to help matters. I know, I used to be a performance poet. The first poetry slam competition was held in Chicago in 1984.
Using Iambic Pentameter in Poetry and Verse. 1  If music be the food of love, play on; 2  Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, 3  The appetite may sicken, and so die. 4  That strain again! it had a dying fall: 5  O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, 6  That breathes upon a bank of violets, 7  Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more: