In stanza 137 of the poem Hávamál, Odin describes how he once sacrificed himself to himself by hanging on a tree.

In the Poetic Edda, Urðarbrunnr is mentioned in stanzas 19 and 20 of the poem Völuspá, and stanza 111 of the poem Hávamál.

List associated his Gibor rune with the final stanza of the Rúnatal ( stanza 165 of the Hávamál, trans.

In the poem Fjölsvinnsmál, a stanza mentions Loki ( as Lopt ) in association with runes.

In the stanza that follows, Odin describes how he had no food nor drink there, that he peered downward, and that " I took up the runes, screaming I took them, then I fell back from there.

In Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene 8 lines of pentameter are followed by an alexandrine, the eponymous Spenserian stanza.

As in the Spenserian stanza above, alexandrines are sometimes mixed with pentameter verse.

Fandangos and derivative palos such as malagueñas, tarantas and cartageneras ) are bimodal: guitar introductions are in Phrygian mode while the singing develops in major mode, modulating to Phrygian at the end of the stanza.

In the poem, Fjölsviðr describes to the hero Svipdagr that Sinmara keeps the weapon Lævateinn within a chest, locked with nine strong locks ( due to significant translation differences, two translations of the stanza are provided here ):

He was therefore mentioned in a stanza of the Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. poem, " At the Saturday Club ," where the author dreams he sees some of his friends who are no longer:

Irregular odes are rhyming, but they do not employ the three-part form of the Pindaric ode nor the two-or four-line stanza of the Horatian ode.

God's providence, and Cowper's sense of a close and personal relationship with God are voiced in stanza four: ' He will my shield and portion be '.

Among major structural elements used in poetry are the line, the stanza or verse paragraph, and larger combinations of stanzas or lines such as cantos.

In many forms of poetry, stanzas are interlocking, so that the rhyming scheme or other structural elements of one stanza determine those of succeeding stanzas.

It is composed of a series of quatrains ; the second and fourth lines of each stanza are repeated as the first and third lines of the next.

The first and third lines of the last stanza are the second and fourth of the penultimate ; the first line of the poem is the last line of the final stanza, and the third line of the first stanza is the second of the final.

His most quoted excerpts are from the beginning of the last stanza of To Althea, From Prison:

Above all, her words are chosen for their sheer melody: the skill with which she placed her vowels and consonants, admired by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, is evidenced by almost any stanza ; the music to which she sang them has gone, but the spoken sounds may still enchant.

The words that end each line of the first stanza are used as line endings in each of the following stanzas, rotated in a set pattern.

Similar to his " Sestina " each stanza first repeats end-words 12 then 1 of the previous stanza ; the rest are ad lib.

In the original form composed by Daniel, each line is of ten syllables, except the first of each stanza which are of seven.

The pattern that the line-ending words follow is often explained if the numbers 1 to 6 are allowed to stand for the end-words of the first stanza.

Every stanza ends with a reference to Canada as the land " where colored men are free ".

The first and third lines of the first stanza are rhyming refrains that alternate as the third line in each successive stanza and form a couplet at the close.

" In the stanza that follows, a list of names of horses are given that the Æsir ride to " sit as judges " at Yggdrasil.

The ut – re – mi-fa-so-la syllables are taken from the initial syllables of each of the first six half-lines of the first stanza of the hymn Ut queant laxis, whose text is attributed to the Italian monk and scholar Paulus Diaconus ( though the musical line either shares a common ancestor with the earlier setting of Horace's " Ode to Phyllis " ( Odes 4. 11 ) recorded in the Montpellier manuscript H425, or may even have been taken from it.

First published anonymously, the poem had characteristics in the last stanza that were similar to Ethan Allen's prose and caused it to be attributed to Allen for nearly 60 years.

The Garuda clutches in its talons a scroll bearing the National Motto of Indonesia, " Bhinneka Tunggal Ika " which is an Old Javanese stanza of the epic poem " Sutasoma " attributed to the 14th century poet sage of the Javanese Majapahit Empire, Empu Tantular.

The eddic poem Grímnismál describes twelve divine dwellings beginning in stanza 5 with:

West Germany adopted the Deutschlandlied as its official national anthem in 1952 for similar reasons, with only the third stanza sung on official occasions.

In the third stanza, with a call for " Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit " ( unity and justice and freedom ), Hoffmann expressed his desire for a united and free Germany where the rule of law, not monarchical arbitrariness, would prevail.

In the stanza that follows, the völva describes that Odin's " tall child of Triumph's Sire " ( Odin's son Víðarr ) will then come to " strike at the beast of slaughter ," and with his hands, he will drive a sword onto the heart of " Hveðrungr's son ," avenging the death of his father.

The same story is referenced in one stanza of the poem, Lokasenna, in which Loki insults Frigg by accusing her of infidelity with Odin's brothers:

Another form of hendecasyllabic verse is the " Sapphic " ( so named for its use in the Sapphic stanza ), with the pattern:

The first lines of the poem follow iambic tetrameter with the initial stanza relying on heavy stresses.

In various poems from the Poetic Edda ( stanza 2 of Lokasenna, stanza 41 of Hyndluljóð, and stanza 26 of Fjölsvinnsmál ), and sections of the Prose Edda ( chapter 32 of Gylfaginning, stanza 8 of Haustlöng, and stanza 1 of Þórsdrápa ) Loki is alternately referred to as Loptr, which is generally considered derived from Old Norse lopt meaning " air ", and therefore points to an association with the air.

In stanza 35 of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, a völva tells Odin that, among many other things, she sees Sigyn sitting very unhappily with her bound husband, Loki, under a " grove of hot springs ".

The poem Lokasenna ( Old Norse " Loki's Quarrel ") centers around Loki flyting with other gods ; Loki puts forth two stanzas of insults while the receiving figure responds with a single stanza, and then another figure chimes in.

Loki ends the poetic verses of Lokasenna with a final stanza:

The first stanza notes that Loki produced " the wolf " with the jötunn Angrboða, that Loki himself gave birth to the horse Sleipnir by the stallion Svaðilfari, and that Loki ( referred to as the " brother of Býleistr ") thirdly gave birth to " the worst of all marvels ".

After his death came Selected Poems ( 1972 ), followed by Peake's Progress in ( 1979 – though the Penguin edition of 1982, with many corrections, including a whole stanza inadvertently omitted from the hardback edition, is to be preferred ).

After Loki has an exchange with the goddess Freyja, in stanza 33 Njörðr states:

High states that afterward Skaði went back up to the mountains to Þrymheimr and recites a stanza where Skaði skis around, hunts animals with a bow, and lives in her fathers old house.

The Pindarick of Cowley was revived around 1800 by William Wordsworth for one of his very finest poems, the Intimations of Immortality ode ; irregular odes were also written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley who wrote odes with regular stanza patterns.