The tercet also forms part of the villanelle, where the initial five stanzas are tercets, followed by a concluding quatrain.

The initial publication had 10 stanzas.

The two initial stanzas were created first-probably in the middle or at the end of the thirteenth century, or possibly at the very beginning of the fourteenth century.

Later versions developed by embellishment, with other versions adding and removing stanzas including kissing, boys zipping up their flies, a little black boy, and bras, while the initial "... boat, ... bell / ..., ... Hell /-o ... number nine / If ..." has remained stable, though with variations in the details.

Seven hundred years later Richard C. Trench published the initial stanzas of the Poem, beginning " Urbs Sion aurea, patria lactea ," in his Sacred Latin Poetry ( 1849 ).

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

Acrostic poems conveyed meanings in the initial letters of lines or in letters at other specific places in a poem.

* April 27 – The blind, impoverished, 58-year-old John Milton sells the copyright of his epic poem Paradise Lost to London publisher Samuel Simmons for an initial payment of £ 5.

Cædmon's only known surviving work is Cædmon's Hymn, the nine-line alliterative vernacular praise poem in honour of God which he supposedly learned to sing in his initial dream.

Orc is from Old English orcneas, which appears in the epic poem Beowulf, and refers to one of the races who are called the offspring of Cain during the initial description of Grendel (" Þanon untydras ealle onwocon ,/ eotenas ond ylfe, ond orcneas ," ll.

It is also the place where the Ariwara no Narihira wrote a poem in the Ise Monogatari using the five initial letters of Ka-Ki-Tsu-Ba-Ta.

Although its initial publication passed nearly unnoticed and it received little critical attention in the nineteenth century, the poem is now heavily anthologised and much studied.

" Jerdan encouraged Landon's poetic endeavors, and her first poem was published under the single initial " L " in the Gazette in 1820, when Landon was 18.

He recited the free verse poem on Sesame Street in 1971, geared to fulfilling Sesame Street's initial curriculum for serving under-privileged city children, as well as promoting cultural understanding.

The initial letters of the quatrains, indicated by large initials in some manuscripts, form an acrostic with the names Gotefrid-Tristan-Isolde, which runs throughout the poem.

Heller echoes the eponymous character in Edwin Arlington Robinson's poem " Miniver Cheevy " in his initial description of Maj. Major as " born too late and too mediocre ".

According to Carroll, the initial inspiration to write the poem – which he called an agony in eight fits – was the final verse For the snark was a boojum, you see.

To Fineman, the poem ’ s initial self-citation is just one example of how the “ poem ’ s own rhetoricity is ... performatively implicated in the rape it reports ”.

A success upon its initial publication in 1907, the poem became a staple of traditional campfire storytelling in North America throughout the 20th century.

Though the folios on which the poem is recorded are not subject to any significant damage necessitating reconstruction, its textual problems and, particularly, the grammatical confusion of the first lines of the text, have resulted in widespread postulation that the initial lines of the poem may have been lost prior to its inclusion in the Exeter Book but subsequent to an earlier transcription.

The poem has been relatively well-preserved and requires few if any emendations to enable an initial reading.

The poem, commonly dated to the first quarter of the 13th century, is itself largely based on Chrétien de Troyes ’ s Perceval, the Story of the Grail and mainly centers on the Arthurian hero Parzival ( Percival in English ) and his long quest for the Holy Grail following his initial failure to achieve it.

The poem tells of the initial disunity and setbacks of the Christians and their ultimate success.

Despite Byron's initial hesitation at having the first two cantos of the poem published because he felt it revealed too much of himself, it was published, at the urging of friends, by John Murray in 1812, and brought both the poem and its author to immediate and unexpected public attention.

The middle line of each triplet stanza is repeated as the third line of the following stanza, and the first and third lines of the initial stanza are the second and final lines of the concluding quatrain ; thus, seven of the lines are repeated in the poem.

Hucbald wrote also numerous lives of the saints and remained famous for a curious poem on bald men ( Ecloga de calvis ) dedicated to the archbishop of Mainz, where every word of the 146 hexameters begins with the letter C, initial of calvus.

The process stipulates that the choreographer sense the quality of the initial movement he has discovered and that he feel the rightness of the quality that is to follow it.

As I see it, if war starts and we survive the initial attack enough to be able to fight back, the nuclear weapons we now have -- at least the bombs -- can inflict all the demage that is necessary.

In the 10-year period, it is proposed that insect and disease control on the National Forest System be stepped up to a level of prevention, detection, and control of insect and disease infestations that will substantially reduce the occurrence of large infestations toward the end of the initial period.

The objective is to achieve sufficient effectiveness of control on all of the area now under treatment plus the additional acres so that after the initial period only maintenance control will be needed.

This work is progressing on schedule and we expect to make initial shipments in the fourth quarter of this year.

It is interesting to note that the present level of military electronics procurement is greater than the industry's total sales to all markets in 1950-1953, which were good years for our industry with television enjoying its initial period of rapid consumer acceptance.

Our major problem is what an enemy might accomplish in an initial attack on a target.

It has further been shown that: ( 1 ) an experimental neurosis in its initial stages is associated with a reversible shift in the central autonomic balance ; ;

In some programs, treatment is concentrated over a short period of time, while in others, after the initial contact is established, flexible spacing of interviews has been experimentally used with apparent success.

Moreover, it is too readily forgotten that in the Republic what gave the initial impetus to Plato's excursus into the construction of an imaginary commonwealth with its ruling-class communism of goods, wives, and children, was his quest for a canon for the proper ordering of the individual human psyche ; ;

The initial availability of index words and electronic switches is determined by a table which is included in the Compiler Systems Tape.

Radiation, therefore, is at an initial cost disadvantage even though only 1 to 10 per cent as much radiation energy as heat energy is required for radiopasteurization or radiosterilization.

One of Mrs. Kennedy's initial concerns as First Lady was the sad state of the furnishings in a building which is supposed to be a national shrine.

The one unifying note, if any, is sounded in the initial article entitled: `` How To Get Through The Day ''.

The study of altruism was the initial impetus behind George R. Price's development of the Price equation, which is a mathematical equation used to study genetic evolution.

The first is called the initial arraignment and must take place within 48 hours of an individual's arrest, 72 hours if the individual was arrested on the weekend and not able to go before a judge until Monday.

Devanagari is typically an abugida augmented with dedicated letters for initial vowels, though some traditions use अ as a zero consonant as the graphic base for such vowels.

Nor is, in a dictionary of English, the lexical section with initial th-reserved a place after the letter t, but is inserted between te-and ti -.

This converted to GBP £ 1, 687, 837 at the time In 2012, the capital is worth around SEK 3. 1 billion ( USD 472 million, EUR 337 million ), which is almost twice the amount of the initial capital, taking inflation into account.