Many epic poems of various cultures were pieced together from shorter pieces of traditional narrative verse, which explains their episodic structure and often their in medias res plot developments.

Ottoman poetry included epic length verse, but is better Known for shorter forms such as the gazel.

It gave the hexameter line of epic verse a lyrical impulse by the addition of a shorter " pentameter " line, in a series of couplets accompanied by the music of the aulos or pipe.

Commenting on the poem, Maurice Bowra observed that "... after the challenging, flaunting opening we are led through a swift account of youth, and then as we approach the horrors of old age, the verse becomes slower, the sentences shorter, the stops more emphatic, until the poet closes with a short, damning line of summary.

In fact one fanciful explanation of his lameness is that it alludes to the elegiac couplet, one verse of which is shorter than the other.

The thirty-three hymns praise most of the major gods of Greek mythology ; at least the shorter ones may have served as preludes to the recitation of epic verse at festivals by professional rhapsodes: often the singer concludes by saying that now he will pass to another song.

:" a foot which is lacking in one-half of a verse may find a substitute in the more ample thought of this shorter line ".

Muhammad, as we find in many hadith, used to refer to shorter suras not by name, rather by their first verse.

Konrad's powers are to be seen to best advantage in his shorter verse romances, such as Engelhart und Engeltrut, Kaiser Otto and Das Herzemaere ; the last mentioned, the theme of which has been made familiar to modern readers by Uhland in his Kastellan von Coucy, is one of the best poems of its kind in Middle High German literature.

But with the notoriously loose construction of the haggadic exegesis it became easy to string together, on every verse or part of a verse, a number of rambling comments ; or to add longer or shorter haggadic passages, stories, etc., connected in some way with the exposition of the text.

On the 2001 remastered edition ( CDVX 2581 ) " Garden of Earthly Delights " is a new edit ( removing the brief gap between the fade-in section and the first verse ), " King for a Day " is an alternate mix ( with more low-end information and an emphasised woodblock part ) and " One of the Millions " has a shorter introduction ( omitting the first two rings of the bell in the fade-in section ).

The seventh verse, which begins, ' O For A Thousand Tongues To Sing ', and which now is invariably the first verse of a shorter hymn recalls the words of Peter Böhler who said, ' Had I a thousand tongues I would praise Him with them all.

This contrasts with the previous verse, where the Greek implies the Beloved Disciple gave a much shorter glance to the linens.

Two additional shortened versions were also used occasionally when episodes ran over the allotted time: the version used in a few episodes of season two cut half of the first stanza and the entire second, going directly to the first chorus following the verse, " Sometimes you just get a feeling / Like you need some kind of change ...", reducing the length to 65 seconds, but the version used from season three onward used all but the second stanza, reducing the length to 48 seconds ; the season four short version added a shorter harmonica portion near the end, which was absent in the season three short version.

Hanshan's poetry consists of Chinese verse, in 3, 5, or 7 character lines ; never shorter than 4 lines, and never longer than 34 lines.

Then, each of the three main fights are organized chiastically, a chiastic structure on the level of verse paragraphs and shorter passages.

The single mix differs from the album version by having Liz Mitchell singing the verse " Let the words of our mouth ..." with Frank Farian, on the LP, Farian sings this as a solo part ; it is also slightly shorter, the instrumental passage before the last " humming " part is edited out, and the fade out is a little longer (" Oooooh of the power ... yeah yeah yeah yeah " can only be heard in the single mix ).

The first verse ends at 0: 37 and is followed by a very similar second verse, which is however shorter by one line.

The running time of the album version is 5: 08, while the single edit is noticeably shorter at 2: 58, due to the removal of the song's second verse and middle section.

This verse opens with a truncated version of the opening of Matthew 5: 27, which is itself a shorter version of the start of Matthew 5: 21.

" These five follow older chansons in subject, but the smoothness of the verse and beauty of detail readily compensate for the spontaneity of the shorter form.

Of the shorter poems, besides the greeting to Pippin on his return from the campaign against the Avars ( 796 ), an epistle to David ( Charlemagne ) incidentally reveals a delightful picture of the poet living with his children in a house surrounded by pleasant gardens near the emperor's palace.

Like the Finnsburg Fragment and several shorter surviving poems, Beowulf has consequently been used as a source of information about Scandinavian personalities such as Eadgils and Hygelac, and about continental Germanic personalities such as Offa, king of the continental Angles.

Boethian influence can be found nearly everywhere in Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry, e. g. in Troilus and Criseyde, The Knight's Tale, The Clerk's Tale, The Franklin's Tale, The Parson's Tale and The Tale of Melibee, in the character of Lady Nature in The Parliament of Fowls and some of the shorter poems, such as Truth, The Former Age and Lak of Stedfastnesse.

Between 1393 and 1412, she composed over 300 ballads, and many more shorter poems.

It refers primarily to the erudite, shorter hexameter poems of the Hellenistic period and the similar works composed at Rome from the age of the neoterics ; to a lesser degree, the term includes some poems of the English Renaissance, particularly those influenced by Ovid.

Many scholars of Homer have concluded that his Iliad and Odyssey were composed from compilations of shorter narrative poems that related individual episodes.

The third group of three poems also start immediately, but are much shorter.

Jean Sibelius showed a great affinity for the form, writing well over a dozen symphonic poems and numerous shorter works.

Though Hölderlin's hymnic style – dependent as it is on a genuine belief in the divinity – creates a deeply personal fusion of Greek mythic figures and romantic nature mysticism, which can appear both strange and enticing, his shorter and sometimes more fragmentary poems have exerted wide influence too on later German poets, from Georg Trakl onwards.

In Homage to Sextus Propertius, for example, Pound " translated " parts of Propertius's elegies and by means of various modernizations of diction, drew attention to parallelisms existing between Propertius's situation and Pound's own, especially the pressures of living in an empire at war and Pound's desire to cease writing shorter lyrical poems and start on longer epic structures.

Ambarvalia ( 1849 ), published jointly with his friend Thomas Burbidge, contains shorter poems of various dates from circa 1840 onwards.

Ferlinghetti had heard Ginsberg read Howl in 1955 at the Six Gallery ; the next day, he offered to publish it along with other shorter poems.

* Book 16 contains 10 or 11 mostly shorter poems, many compartively simple and straightforward.

In 1969, Marlatt published leaf leaf / s, which is a collection of shorter poems.

The scholar David Havird describes the rest of Tate's publication history in poetry as follows: By 1937, when he published his first Selected Poems, Tate had written all of the shorter poems upon which his literary reputation came to rest.

Most of Muldoon's collections contain shorter poems with an inclusion of a long concluding poem.

Lenau's fame rests mainly upon his shorter poems ; even his epics are essentially lyric in quality.

Many of Winther ’ s shorter poems have won popularity and have become transformed into songs, for instance Flyv fugl, flyv – (“ Fly, Bird, fly “), and some of the verses from his collection Til Een, 1842, (“ For One ”) a tribute to his wife.

The shorter poems, Otto and Herzemaere, will be found most conveniently in Erzählungen und Schwänke des Mittelalters, edited by H Lambel ( 2nd ed., 1883 ).

In 1718, he again went to press with A Collection of Poems on Various Subjects, which collected shorter poems that had already been published.

Both valkyries appear in Heimskringla where they seem to be the same being, and are otherwise listed separately in the valkyrie lists in the Poetic Edda poems Völuspá and Grímnismál, the longer of the two valkyrie lists in Skáldskaparmál yet Skögul appears alone in the shorter of the two.