A grook, Danish gruk, is a form of short aphoristic poem or rhyming aphorism created by the Danish poet, designer, inventor and scientist Piet Hein, who wrote more than seven thousand of them between 1939 and his death in 1996, mostly in Danish. The grooks are characterized by irony, paradox, brevity, precise use of language, and rhythm and rhyme, often carrying a satiric edge, and many were published together with an accompanying line drawing that adds a further layer of meaning.
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Place of Origin Defining TraitShort aphoristic rhyming poem, characterized by irony, paradox, brevity, precise use of language, rhythm and rhyme 1 Defining Trait Connections
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created by the Danish poet, designer, inventor, and scientist
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A grook (Danish: gruk) is a form of short aphoristic poem or rhyming aphorism created by the Danish poet, designer, inventor, and scientist Piet Hein.
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a form of short aphoristic poem or rhyming aphorism
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A grook (Danish: gruk) is a form of short aphoristic poem or rhyming aphorism created by the Danish poet, designer, inventor, and scientist Piet Hein.
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