Another common feature of ballads is repetition, sometimes of fourth lines in succeeding stanzas, as a refrain, sometimes of third and fourth lines of a stanza and sometimes of entire stanzas.

Since World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany, only the third stanza has been used as the national anthem.

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

Upon German reunification in 1990, only the third stanza was confirmed as the national anthem.

The title Mitchell finally chose is from the first line of the third stanza of the poem Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson:

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 villanelle is a nineteen-line poem made up of five triplets with a closing quatrain ; the poem is characterized by having two refrains, initially used in the first and third lines of the first stanza, and then alternately used at the close of each subsequent stanza until the final quatrain, which is concluded by the two refrains.

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.

The third, " Farewell, O sun, Arcadia's clearest light ", is evidently the first rhyming sestina in English: it is in iambic pentameter and follows the standard end-word scheme, but rhymes ababcc in the first stanza ( the rhyme scheme necessarily changes in each subsequent stanza, an interesting consequence of which is that the 6th stanza is inevitably in rhyming couplets ).

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 ).

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 ).

The useful suggestion of Professor David Hawkins which considers culture as a third stage in biological evolution fits quite beautifully then with our suggestion that science has provided us with a rather successful technique for building protective artificial environments.

Drifting through a third illness, apparently without any provision for the handling of a major national emergency other than a talk with the vice-president, Eisenhower revealed the singularly static quality of his thinking.

But he was happy to tell her that his finances were now in such condition that he could go back to Harvard for a third year with Professor Baker.

That third year he wrote plays with a fury.

In the third Push-Pull Super-Set the `` push '' exercise is the widegrip Pushup Between Bars, while the `` pull '' exercise is the Moon Bench Lateral Raise with bent arms.

He had style: he held his reins in a loose bunch at the third button of his checked Epsom surtout, and when the horses leaned at a curve, as if bent by the force of a gale, he leaned with them.

Called the Marmara Gazinosu, it is on the third floor, with signs pointing the way there, and has a terrace overlooking the Sea of Marmara.

The expectation is that first-level supervisors will be selected in approximately equal numbers from the second and third engineering level, with very few coming from the first level.

Spectra were also obtained from a third sample of Af which had been diluted to three times its original volume with powdered, anhydrous alundum ( Af ).

Bernard Heuvelmans also treats of the largest snakes, but on the third level, and is chiefly concerned with the anaconda.

In the early 1950's, Smith, together with his distinguished colleague, George Trager ( so austerely academic he sometimes fights his own evident charm ), and a third man with the engaging name of Birdwhistell ( Ray ), agreed on some basic premises about the three-part process that makes communication: ( 1 ) words or language ( 2 ) paralanguage, a set of phenomena including laughing, weeping, voice breaks, and `` tone '' of voice, and ( 3 ) kinesics, the technical name for gestures, facial expressions, and body shifts -- nodding or shaking the head, `` talking '' with one's hands, et cetera.

After the usual Honorable Sirs, it went on to say that there had been set off to the widow one full third part of the real estate of the deceased Salu Norberg, one lower room, on the Western side, privileges to the well and bake-oven and to one third of the cellar ( I can show you the cellar when we go up ), also one Cow Right, and lastly they set off to the widow her own land that she brought with her as dower, namely the Beech Pasture.

Resentment welled up yesterday among Democratic district leaders and some county leaders at reports that Mayor Wagner had decided to seek a third term with Paul R. Screvane and Abraham D. Beame as running mates.

however, the first belief stood for entire revision with a new third point added to the list.

The Orioles got a run in the first inning when Breeding, along with Robinson, the two Birds who got a pair of hits, doubled to right center, moved to third on Russ Snyder's single to right and crossed on Kunkel's wild pitch into the dirt in front of the plate.

The Dallas Texans were back home Monday with their third victory in four American Football League starts -- a 19-12 triumph over the Denver Broncos -- but their visit will be a short one.

Chico Ruiz made a spectacular play on Alusik's grounder in the hole in the fourth and Wert came up with some good stops and showed a strong arm at third base.

In the third Frank Robinson hammered a long home run deep into the corner of the bleachers in right center, about 400 feet away, with two men on.

Momentarily the Reds were back in the ball game, trailing only 6-3, but the drive fizzled when John Edwards fouled out with men on second and third and two out.

When that failed, he enlisted Branch Rickey's aid in the formation of a third major league, the Continental, with New York as the key franchise.

The Government reported last week that the index of prices received by farmers rose in the month ended at mid-September for the third consecutive month, reaching 242% of the 1910-14 average compared with 237% at mid-July.

had to drink There were even drinking game referee officials, including a ' registrar of the rules ' who knew all the rules to the game, a ' registrar of the horn ' who tossed a silver flag down on calling out second offenses, and a ' governor ' who decided one's third call of offense.

" This second case usually involves the town bully and mischief maker Bugs Meany, leader of a gang who call themselves the Tigers, who, after being foiled, will attempt revenge in the third mystery.

With regard to the second and / or third letters in the prefixes in the list below, if the country in question is allocated all callsigns with A to Z in that position, then that country can also use call signs with the digits 0 to 9 in that position.

The examples are usually drawn from fusional languages, where a given " piece " of a word, which a morpheme-based theory would call an inflectional morpheme, corresponds to a combination of grammatical categories, for example, " third person plural.

A customer might call to request a collect call, a call billed to a third number, or a person-to-person call.

Adams admitted that while he originally planned on writing a third Dirk Gently book, the ideas which he had for it would have fit better into another Hitchhiker's book: " A lot of the stuff which was originally in The Salmon of Doubt really wasn't working ", and he planned on " salvaging some of the ideas that I couldn't make work in a Dirk Gently framework and putting them in a Hitchhiker framework ... and for old time's sake I may call it The Salmon of Doubt.

In interviews that can be found in The Salmon of Doubt, Adams admitted that while he was planning on writing a third Dirk Gently book, the ideas he was having for it would have fit better into another Hitchhiker's book: " A lot of the stuff which was originally in The Salmon of Doubt really wasn't working ", and he planned on " salvaging some of the ideas that I couldn't make work in a Dirk Gently framework and putting them in a Hitchhiker framework ... and for old time's sake I may call it The Salmon of Doubt.

The next year, following the acquisition by MPR, WCAL changed its call letters to KCMP and was transformed into MPR's third service, " The Current ".

In the 1970s, a call went out for " third " television stations in several major cities in Canada.

Hijra, a Hindi and Urdu term traditionally translated into English as " eunuch ", actually refers to what modern Westerners would call male-to-female transgender people and effeminate homosexuals ( although some of them reportedly identify as belonging to a third sex ).

On weekdays, this reading is divided into three ; it is customary to call a Kohen for the first reading ( aliyah ), a Levite for the second reading, and a member of any other Tribe of Israel to the third reading.

He may raise to $ 30, declaring himself all in, but this does not constitute a " real " raise, in the following sense: if a third player now calls the $ 30, and the first player's turn to act comes up, he may now call the additional $ 10, but he does not have the right to re-raise further.

The all-in player's pseudo-raise was really just a call with some extra money, and the third player's call was just a call, so the initial opener's bet was simply called by both remaining players, closing the betting round ( even though he must still equalize the money by putting in the additional $ 10 ).

If the half bet rule were being used, then that raise would count as a genuine raise and the first player would be entitled to re-raise if he chose to ( creating a side pot for the amount of his re-raise and the third player's call, if any ).

" And Wain noted the third region of Bowling's nightmare-" what we have since learnt to call ' the environment '.

Of the players who encountered Philidor, Sir Abraham Janssens, who died in 1775, seems to have been the best, Mr. George Atwood, a mathematician, one of Pitt's secretaries came next, he was of a class which we should call third or two grades of odds below Philidor, a high standard of excellence to which but few amateurs attain.

It was said that he Father Gallitzin would chastise any person who would call the town by that opprobrious name and he declared that it should be known as Jefferson ..." in honor of our third President.

The " Corn Fest ", as the locals call it, is held every third Saturday in June.

* Third Umpire-In the event that there is a third umpire decision required a " toss " of the bat will occur and the batsman will make the call, if the call is successful then the batsman will remain " in " otherwise the batsman is " out ".