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In the second stanza of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, the völva ( a shamanic seeress ) reciting the poem to the god Odin says that she remembers far back to " early times ", being raised by jötnar, recalls nine worlds and " nine wood-ogresses " ( Old Norse nío ídiðiur ), and when Yggdrasil was a seed (" glorious tree of good measure, under the ground ").
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second and stanza
* In the 2012 game Mass Effect 3 the second stanza of the poem is cited by one of the main characters: Ashley Williams, lieutenant-commander of the Alliance
The second stanza of the poem is the narrator's response to the power and effects of an Abyssinian maid's song, which enraptures him but leaves him unable to act on her inspiration unless he could hear her once again.
The second stanza is not necessarily part of the original dream and refers to the dream in the past tense.
Its rhyme scheme found in the first seven lines is repeated in the first seven lines of the second stanza.
The lines of the second stanza incorporate lighter stresses to increase the speed of the meter to separate them from the hammer-like rhythm of the previous lines.
There also is strong a break following line 36 in the poem that provides for a second stanza, and there is a transition in narration from a third person narration about Kubla Khan into the poet discussing his role as a poet.
The dome city represents the imagination and the second stanza represents the relationship between a poet and the rest of society.
In the second stanza, Khan is able to establish some order in the natural world but he cannot stop the forces of nature that constantly try to destroy what he made.
According to some critics, the second stanza of the poem, forming a conclusion, was composed at a later date and was possibly disconnected from the original dream.
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.
There is also the imperfect pantoum, in which the final stanza differs from the form stated above, and the second and fourth lines may be different from any preceding lines.
Each successive stanza takes its pattern based upon a bottom-up pairing of the lines of the preceding stanza ( i. e., last and first, then second-from-last and second, then third-from-last and third ).
Given that the pattern for the first stanza is 123456, this produces 615243 in the second stanza.
The second stanza can be seen to have been formed from three sets of pairs ( 6 – 1, 5 – 2, 4 – 3 ), or two triads ( 1 – 2 – 3, 4 – 5 – 6 ).
The lyrics employ the five most widely spoken of South Africa's eleven official languages-Xhosa ( first stanza, first two lines ), Zulu ( first stanza, last two lines ), Sesotho ( second stanza ), Afrikaans ( third stanza ) and English ( final stanza ).
second and Edda
The second part of the Prose Edda is called the Skáldskaparmál and the third Háttatal.
In the Prose Edda, Njord was introduced as " the third among the Æsir ", and among the Asynjur, Freyja is always listed second only to Frigg.
After an easy straight-sets win over Edda Buding in the first round, she faced the American No. 4 Mary-Ann Eisel in the second round.
The Prose Edda mentions Gudny, a second daughter of Gjúki and Grimhild.
The second element " frónska " is derived from " frón ", the poetic name of Iceland, which was one of the names of Earth mentioned in the Prose Edda.
second and poem
Alexandrines also formed the first line of the couplet form Poulter's Measure ( the second line being a fourteener ) as exemplified in Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey's poem, Complaint of the Absence of her lover, being upon the sea ( 1547 ).
The second funeral in the poem is that of Hildeburg ’ s kin and is the second fitt of this poem.
The poet also describes the horror of death in battle, a theme continued from the second part of the poem, through the Last Survivor ’ s eyes.
The Beowulf manuscript was transcribed from an original by two scribes, one of whom wrote the first 1939 lines and a second who wrote the remainder, so the poem up to line 1939 is in one handwriting, whilst the rest of the poem is in another.
The second scribe slaved over the poem for many years " with great reverence and care to restoration ".
Apart from a short poem attributed to Mark of Monte Cassino, the only ancient account of Benedict is found in the second volume of Pope Gregory I's four-book Dialogues, thought to have been written in 593.
An example of this is Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire, the second section of which is a 999 line, 4 canto poem largely written in loose heroic couplets but also allowing for frequent enjambment.
In the second part of the 20th century hexameter was used in the longest ever poem, Savitri ( book ), written in English by Sri Aurobindo.
Taken together, the Preface could connect with the first half of the poem to suggest that the poem is from the view of a dreaming narrator, or it could connect with the second half of the poem to show how a reader is to interpret the lines by connecting himself with the persona in a negative manner.
The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon, and is the second oldest extant work of Western literature, the Iliad being the first.
Among its other rules, the jintishi rules regulate the tonal variations within a poem, including the use of set patterns of the four tones of Middle Chinese The basic form of jintishi ( lushi ) has eight lines in four couplets, with parallelism between the lines in the second and third couplets.
In the poem A Hymn to God the Father, John Donne, married to Anne More, reportedly puns repeatedly: " Son / sun " in the second quoted line, and two compound puns on " Donne / done " and " More / more ".
In the expanded second version of the poem, the Sampo is forged by Ilmarinen, a legendary smith, as a task set by the Mistress of Pohjola in return for her daughter's hand.
second and Völuspá
" John Lindow observes that if Hlín is indeed Frigg, then this means that Hlín's " second sorrow " in Völuspá is the death of Odin, the first being the death of Baldr.
second and reciting
Odes are often intended to be recited or sung by two choruses ( or individuals ), with the first reciting the strophe, the second the antistrophe, and both together the epode.
The second guest was Don Herbert, TV's " Mr. Wizard ", and the show ended with a young comic named Steve Fessler reciting aloud the script of an obscure Bela Lugosi movie Bowery at Midnight.
In her ( and the strip's ) second appearance, Patty is shown walking down the sidewalk reciting " Little girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice.
Here his second wife died, and after wandering through Germany reciting and accepting a short engagement at Breslau, he settled in 1847 at Graz, where he devoted himself to a literary life and produced the novels Die Vagabunden ( 1851 ), Christian Lammfell ( 1853 ) and Den letzte Komödiant ( 1863 ).
Offering the sutra entails reciting the Expedient Means ( second ) and the Life Span of the Tathagata ( sixteenth ) chapters of the Lotus Sutra ; the silent prayers are five formal meditations expressing gratitude for the Three Treasures as defined in Nichiren Shoshu, and the merit accrued through Buddhist practices.
After the mediant, the second part of the psalm verse is sung on the reciting tone until the last few words, which are sung to a cadential formula called the termination.
In addition to the eight psalm tones associated with the eight musical modes, there is a ninth psalm tone called the tonus peregrinus, or " wandering tone ," which uses a reciting tone of A for the first part of the psalm verse and a G for the second half.
Although rarely used, it is not unique ; early sources refer to tones called parapteres, which, like the tonus peregrinus, have different reciting tones in their first and second halves.
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