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In this way of talking, the ballad stanza alternates tetrameters with trimeters.
Similarly, the third line of every stanza ends with a rhyme word which is reinforced by an internal rhyme in the middle of the fourth line.
His technical command of complex stanza forms, sometimes used parodically, is striking.
He prefers to make use of old verse forms like sonnets and pantun, a four-line stanza.
In a conventional Horatian ode, the next stanza would present the Stoic alternative.
Form poems are also noted for their traditional use of rhyme, metre and stanza.
We are, after all, introduced to him in the first stanza through his tastes, the touchstones he cannot lay aside and by which he judges all else.
The work is made up of eight versets, each of which reflects a different stanza of this fine Lenten hymn.
Each stanza is separated by an interlude for the horn, which sounds a deathly fanfare for the wounded and dying of Sitwell's poem.
The first stanza reveals a speaker characterized by vainglory and chivalry at one and the same time.
However, the last stanza of this poem reluctantly acknowledges the need for-the inevitability of dualism.
That coming-to-consciousness is a task of great difficulty, and the final stanza of the poem enacts that difficulty.
But by the time we get to the end of the stanza and the poem, the tone will have changed totally.
So an entire stanza or page might at times intervene between the M and the U of Mud.
I thought it was curious, then, when I saw the phrase in Sappho, in the first stanza of the poem To Atthis.
It was monodic, and was composed in a variety of lyric metres in two or four-line stanzas, including the alcaic stanza, named after him.
Valery adheres to a rhythm of alexandrines in stanza five, yet the lines do not progress in an even manner.
It is highly enjambed, since the urgency of its obvious message carries it over from line to line, stanza to stanza.
The stanza is written like the formulaic examples of wit and allusion in old-fashioned riddle books.
The composer's job becomes, in this case, to find a single musical stanza that suits all the verse stanzas.
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Examples from Classical Literature
We quote for the sake of one line chiefly, but the whole stanza is pertinent.
That stanza, as it stands above, does not occur in any of the extant quasi-originals.
Here the frons is connected with the cauda, which recurs in each stanza as a kind of refrain, by means of concatenatio.
The shorter, Septenary part of the stanza represents the frons, the tail-rhyme stanza, the versus.
Some other sub-varieties of the sextain have rhyming final words in each stanza.
It is composed of hendecasyllabic verses, mostly of the first class, with a heptasyllabic verse closing each stanza.
It is written in the stanza of eight, which is their measure for heroic verse.
I hate to think that he may become a social butterfly on account of his title, but a stanza from Calverly haunts my memory.
The Castle of Indolence, an allegorical poem in the Spenserian stanza, generally considered to be his masterpiece.
Like the Spenserian stanza, the Epithalamium stanza has given rise to numerous imitations.
The future Burns will be wise to choose some measure more tripping and up-to-date than the stately and rumbling Spenserian stanza.
This order of rimes reminds us of that in the Spenserian stanza, and must have been devised by Spenser at about the same time.
It is so tattered that one stanza, the last, is indecipherable and had to be omitted.
A light meter and stanza may very easily be spoiled by the introduction of a too-strong word.
The main movement of Poliziano's poem is intrusted to the traditional octave stanza, but we find passages of terza rima.
Girvan is the name of the river that suits the idea of the stanza best, but Lugar is the most agreeable modulation of syllables.
The common-meter stanza contains four iambic lines, the first and third being tetrameter, and the second and fourth trimeter.
There are, metrically speaking, few finer couplets in English than the first of that second stanza.
Lastly, the villanelle alternates one of two refrain lines at the end of each three-lined stanza.
Byron had first adopted the stanza in his translation of Pulci's Morgante Maggiore, which is itself in ottava rime.
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