Lord Vetinari was born into the extremely powerful Vetinari family ( a pun, or play on words, on the real-life family of the Medici and on the word " veterinary ") and raised by his aunt, Lady Roberta Meserole.

Carried high on this `` charge '', he composes `` magical '' poetry that captures the organic rhythms of life in words.

Songs and poetry often rely on ambiguous words for artistic effect, as in the song title " Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue " ( where " blue " can refer to the color, or to sadness ).

I should say I wanted to write poetry in the beginning because I had fallen in love with words.

Stress is always on the second-last vowel in fully Esperanto words unless a final vowel o is elided, which occurs mostly in poetry.

In other words, he objected to trying to write poetry using the same devices as one would in painting.

Parry and his student Albert Lord pointed out that such elaborate oral tradition, foreign to today's literate cultures, is typical of epic poetry in a predominantly oral cultural milieu, the key words being " oral " and " traditional ".

However, while his poetry features some Aeolisms there are no words that are certainly Boeotian — he composed in the main literary dialect of the time ( Homer's dialect ): Ionian.

In contrast to the Northern Italian language, southern Italian dialects and languages were largely untouched by the Franco-Occitan influences introduced to Italy, mainly by bards from France, during the Middle Ages but, after the Norman conquest of southern Italy, Sicily became the first Italian land to adopt Occitan lyric moods ( and words ) in poetry.

Less likely is the commonly proposed derivation from Welsh arth " bear " + ( g ) wr " man " ( earlier * Arto-uiros in Brittonic ); there are phonological difficulties with this theory — notably that a Brittonic compound name * Arto-uiros should produce Old Welsh * Artgur and Middle / Modern Welsh * Arthwr and not Arthur ( in Welsh poetry the name is always spelled Arthur and is exclusively rhymed with words ending in-ur-never words ending in-wr-which confirms that the second element cannot be wr " man ").

Except in epic poetry, they tended to use a familiar vocabulary, giving it poetic value by imaginative combinations of words and by rich sound effects.

A rhyme ( sometimes spelt rime ) is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words and is most often used in poetry and songs.

Brian Ó Cuív sets out the rules of rhyme in Irish poetry of the classical period: the last stressed vowel and any subsequent long vowels must be identical in order for two words to rhyme.

Turkish literature during the Ottoman period, particularly Ottoman Divan poetry, was heavily influenced by Persian, including the adoption of poetic meters and a great quantity of imported words.

As well as avoiding the use of these foreign words in his poetry, Barnes would often use a repetition of consonantal sounds similar to the Welsh poetry, cynghanedd.

In the second edition of Lyrical Ballads, published in 1800 ( see 1800 in poetry ), he replaced many of the archaic words.

The poem has some aspects characteristic of much of Carroll's poetry: it utilizes technically adept meter and rhyme, grammatically correct phrasing, logical chains of events — and largely nonsensical content, frequently employing made-up words such as " Snark ".

The poetry of Walt Whitman also had a profound effect on Holst, as it did with many of his contemporaries, and he set Whitman's words in " Dirge for Two Veterans " and The Mystic Trumpeter ( 1904 ).

On this point Samuel Taylor Coleridge requested, jokingly, that novice poets should know the " definitions of prose and poetry ; that is, prose ,— words in their best order ; poetry ,— the best words in their best order.

:: Amphiboly occurs frequently in poetry, owing to the alteration of the natural order of words for metrical reasons.

The Occitan words trobador and trobaire are relatively rare compared with the verb trobar ( compose, invent ), which was usually applied to the writing of poetry.

But apart from racial problems, the old unreconstructed South -- to use the moderate words favored by Mr. Thomas Griffith -- finds itself unsympathetic to most of what is different about the civilization of the North.

Their gait is impossible to convey in words.

What appears here is shorter than what he actually said but very close to his own words.

But because it is the function of the mind to turn the one into the other by means of the capacities with which words endow it, we do not unwisely examine the type of distinction, in the sphere of politics, on which decisions hang.

This happens at the moment man loses the perception of moral substance in himself, of a nature that, in Maritain's words, is perceived as a `` locus of intelligible necessities ''.

Once more, in other words, Steele is said to be indebted to Swift for his `` wit '' ; ;

In the calm which follows the reading of a poem, for example, is the effect produced by the enforced quiet, by the musical quality of words and rhythm, by the sentiments or sense of the poem, by the associations with earlier readings, if it is familiar, by the boost to the self-esteem for the semi-literate, by the diversion of attention, by the sense of security in a legitimized withdrawal, by a kind license for some variety of fantasy life regarded as forbidden, or by half-conscious ideas about the magical power of words??

I bethought me of the Lord's Prayer, and these words came to mind: `` Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven ''.

The problem, in other words, is strictly a chronological one.

And the second requirement for convincing people without their knowledge is artistic talent to prepare the words and pictures which persuade by using the principles which the scientists have discovered.

Thus the copywriter in the world of the space merchants is the person who in earlier ages might have been a lyric poet, the person `` capable of putting together words that stir and move and sing ''.

and the narrator recalls the words of his father, Vincent Berger: `` It is not by any amount of scratching at the individual that one finally comes down to mankind ''.

In other words, the Secretary General is to be a nonpartisan, international servant, not a political, national one.

One is impressed with the dignity, clarity and beauty of this new translation into contemporary English, and there is no doubt that the meaning of the Bible is more easily understandable to the general reader in contemporary language in the frequently archaic words and phrases of the King James.

For the most part, however, the new version is contemporary and, as such, should be the means for many to attain a clearer comprehension of the meaning of those words recorded so many hundreds of years ago by the first followers of Christ.

During the slow buildup, the essence of a policy or a man is concealed under embroidered details, fine words, strutting gestures.

The words ran crazily in his head: Mollie the Mutton is scratching her nose in the rain.

Then the words fell into a pattern: `` Mollie the Mutton is scratching her nose, Scratching her nose in the rain.

You remember the words of President Kennedy a week or so ago, when someone asked him when he was in Canada, and Dean Rusk was in Europe, and Vice President Johnson was in Asia, `` Who is running the store ''??

I think the answer is to be found in Prokofieff's own words: `` the clarity must be new, not old ''.