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This is a glossary of poetry terms.
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- ↑ "Little Willie". Glossary of Poetic Terms. Poets' Graves. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
- ↑ Robbins, F.N. (1904). The Willie Ballads with other Limericks and Nonsense Rhymes. Columbia, South Carolina: R.L. Bryan Company. p. 9.
- ↑ "Give us the Willies". The Washington Post . Retrieved 19 December 2019.