Toledo inclines toward regular stanzaic form, a sense of order. From Wordnik.com. [THE LONG LOST STARTLE by JOEL TOLEDO] Reference
On the various kinds of stanzaic structure, see pages 88 ff., below. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
It also shares a similar stanzaic structure, notational apparatus, and episodic form. From Wordnik.com. [The Ruins of Empire: Nationalism, Art, and Empire in Hemans's Modern Greece] Reference
It has not been very successfully used in English, except in the stanzaic arrangement of. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
The poetry, even in the epics, is stanzaic; no part of it can fairly be compared to English blank verse. From Wordnik.com. [Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works] Reference
ODE, a kind of exalted lyric poem, not strictly a metrical term but often used as such to describe the simple stanzaic structure of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
These are all valuable reasons to explore and experiment using not just classical prosody but even, if a free verser, the stanzaic forms set out earlier. From Wordnik.com. [THE PROSODY HANDBOOK: A GUIDE TO POETIC FORM by ROBERT BEUM & KARL SHAPIRO] Reference
The stanzaic unit is so easily carried in one's mind and so rapidly repeats itself, that there is little opportunity for the necessary pleasing surprises. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
Many of these complex stanzaic forms, moreover, belong in the tradition of the so-called Pindaric ode, imitated freely from the Greek choric odes of Pindar. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
Woodberry unhappily observes that ‘the emendation corrects a faultless line merely to make it agree with stanzaic structure, and ... is open to the gravest doubt.’. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference
The Earl of Surrey remixed the sonnet's 14 lines into a new stanzaic structure, turning it into a four-part argument and spurring Shakespeare into an orgy of creativity. From Wordnik.com. [Why Gears of War Rocks] Reference
"Voice" here serves as the latently embodied sanctuary for anthropomorphic desires whose gradual muting or transfiguration organizes the stanzaic sequence of Keats's odes. From Wordnik.com. [The Voice of Critique: Aesthetic Cognition After Kant,] Reference
Such skewed mimickry extends not only to Byron's literary reputation but to his stanzaic forms, grammatical infringements, poetic titles -- and, indeed, to his very "title" itself. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction: Juridical Texts and Transgressive Containment] Reference
This sets the stage for a listing of stanzaic forms moving from the couplet, through the tercet to finally arriving at the ode and unusual forms such as the sequidilla and the haiku, etc. From Wordnik.com. [THE PROSODY HANDBOOK: A GUIDE TO POETIC FORM by ROBERT BEUM & KARL SHAPIRO] Reference
But a frequent kind of repetition which is truly a prosodic phenomenon and which, though primarily an element of stanzaic form, has often an effect analogous to those just described, is the refrain. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
But despite vague thematic parallels and intermittent echoes of Byron's vocabulary, Clare's major debts consist in the title and the stanzaic form, both of which deviate from Byron's in significant ways. From Wordnik.com. [Like] Reference
The stanzaic forms thus far noticed have comprised three verses or lines. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
The English "Horatian" ode, then, while exhibiting the greatest differences in complexity of stanzaic forms, is. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Poetry] Reference
It must be observed, however, that the English odes written in strictly uniform stanzas differ greatly in the simplicity of the stanzaic pattern. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Poetry] Reference
But now, as if the fervour of his theme had at length begun to carry the poet beyond his narrow stanzaic limits, the lines multiply in each stanza. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
Woodberry unhappily observes that 'the emendation corrects a faultless line merely to make it agree with stanzaic structure, and ... is open to the gravest doubt.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 3] Reference
Each stanzaic form has its conveniences, its "fatal facility," its natural fitness for singing a song or telling a story or turning a thought over and over into music. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Poetry] Reference
One of Poe's greatest inventions was the liquidation of stanzaic form, by which he was able to mould it to the movements of emotion without losing its essential structure. From Wordnik.com. [Some Diversions of a Man of Letters] Reference
The stanzaic form is that used by Mrs. Shapcote in one of her latest works ( "Mary, the Perfect Woman", Manresa Press, 1903), and may be illustrated by the first stanza of canto 5 (To the Breast). From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
| stanzaic forms, the larger works of Alden and Schipper |. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
| stanzaic structure is with small italic letters for the |. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
A union of "emotional law" with "stanzaic law," the soul of poetry would find its perfect embodiment. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Poetry] Reference
"Dear Leader wants all Korean opera to be full of" stanzaic songs, which can be understood easily and loved by the people. ". From Wordnik.com. [Merrill Markoe: Kim Jong Il on Opera: A Book Report] Reference
Poets who are drawn to form-such as Robert Lowell-and who write longer poems tend to have intricate stanzaic structures, such as Lowell's ". From Wordnik.com. [PoetryFoundation.org] Reference
A poem’s stanzaic form controls the outline. From Wordnik.com. [Cunningham’s history of criticism] Reference
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