Nezval's drama has seven acts, centre of each act is a ballade.

The earliest attestation mentioned by the Concise Oxford English Dictionary is in fact T. S. Eliot, who between 1910 and 1916 wrote an early poem to which he gave the title " The Triumph of Bullshit ", written in the form of a ballade.

Much of the surviving music of the time is secular, and tends to use the formes fixes: the ballade, the virelai, the lai, the rondeau, which correspond to poetic forms of the same names.

The ballade (; not to be confused with the ballad ) is a form of French poetry.

In Edmund Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, it is a ballade that Cyrano composes impromptu during a duel.

A typical ballade is Resvellies vous et faites chiere lye, which was written in 1423 for the marriage of Carlo Malatesta and Vittoria di Lorenzo Colonna ( Carlo was a son of Malatesta dei Sonetti, Lord of Pesaro.

" Dulce et Decorum est " is written in form of a french ballade ; the first part tells the story ( broken into three stanzas ) and the second draws a lesson from the first.

He is believed to have written secular music, but no songs in the vernacular can be attributed to him with any degree of certainty: although the French-texted rondeau Puisque m ’ amour is attributed to Dunstaple in two sources and there is no reason to doubt his authorship, the ballade remained the more favoured form for English secular song at this time and there is limited opportunity for comparison with the rest of his output.

It is thus most similar to the French musical ' forme fixe ' virelai ( and not the ballade as the name might otherwise suggest ).

Nothing is known about him except that he wrote an elegy on the death of Guillaume de Machaut ( 1377 ), a four-voice ballade Armes amours / O flour des flours, which is contained in the Chantilly Codex.

It is one of the three formes fixes ( the others were the ballade and the rondeau ) and was one of the most common verse forms set to music in Europe from the late thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries.

His secular music is the most up-to-date, and includes examples of each of the prevailing formes fixes, the ballade, the virelai, and the rondeau.

The crowd is going to disperse when Cyrano lashes out at a pesky busybody, then is confronted by Valvert and duels with him while composing a ballade, wounding him as he ends the refrain ( as promised: he ends each refrain with " When I end the refrain, ' Thrust Home '.

The fable is found in a large number of mediaeval Latin sources and also figures as a moral ballade among the poems of Eustache Deschamps under the title of La fourmi et le céraseron.

One of his pieces, the ballade Le dieus d ' amours, was copied into the famous Chantilly Codex, the illuminated manuscript which is the primary source for the Avignon repertory of the ars subtilior.

The word bullshit does not appear in the text of the poem, though in keeping with the ballade form, the refrain " For Christ's sake stick it up your ass " appears in each following verse and concludes the envoi.

This distinguishes the lai from other common types of musically important verse of the period ( for example, the rondeau and the ballade ).

It was one of the three formes fixes ( the other two were the ballade and the virelai ), and one of the verse forms in France most commonly set to music between the late 13th and the 15th centuries.

He may have adapted the form from a French ballade stanza or from the Italian Ottava rima, with the omission of the fifth line.

By the mid-15th century, the form had become largely divorced from music, and numerous examples of this form ( including the ballade and the rondeau ) were written, which were either not intended to be set to music, or for which the music has not survived.

Brahms returned to the wordless ballade form in writing the third of the Six Pieces for Piano, Op.

A seven-line ballade, or ballade royal, consists of four stanzas of rhyme royal, all using the same three rhymes, all ending in a refrain, without an envoi.

The tonal center of each ballade conveys an interconnectedness between the four pieces: the first three each include the key signature of the ballade that follows it somewhere as a tonal center, and the fourth ends in the key signature of D major / B minor despite cadencing in B major.

A ballade supreme has ten-line stanzas rhyming ababbccdcD, with the envoi ccdcD or ccdccD.

It was the time of the rhétoriqueurs, poets who combined stilted language with a fondness for the allegorical manner of the 15th century and the most complicated and artificial forms of the ballade and the rondeau.

During this period Dufay also began his long association with the Este family in Ferrara, some of the most important musical patrons of the Renaissance, and with which he probably had become acquainted during the days of his association with the Malatesta family ; Rimini and Ferrara are not only geographically close, but the two families were related by marriage, and Dufay composed at least one ballade for Niccolò III, Marquis of Ferrara.

Secular vocal genres included the madrigal, the frottola, the caccia, the chanson in several forms ( rondeau, virelai, bergerette, ballade, musique mesurée ), the canzonetta, the villancico, the villanella, the villotta, and the lute song.

The majority of his output consists of short poems in the ballade and rondeau meters, written in the French language.

As an author, Marceau published two books for children, the Marcel Marceau Alphabet Book and the Marcel Marceau Counting Book, and poetry and illustrations, including La ballade de Paris et du Monde ( The Ballad of Paris and of the World ), an art book which he wrote in 1966, and The Story of Bip, written and illustrated by Marceau and published by Harper and Row.

He also worked in the polyphonic forms of the ballade and rondeau and wrote the first complete setting of the Ordinary of the Mass which can be attributed to a single composer.

" Machaut mostly composed in five genres: the lai, the virelai, the motet, the ballade, and the rondeau.

From the age of 5 Mayer attended the Mannheim conservatoire, where, at the age of 11, he played a piano ballade by Brahms before the composer.

Austin Dobson, who had already made successful use of the triolet, was at the head of this movement, and in May 1876 he published in The Prodigals the first original ballade written in English.

Chaucer seems to be one of the few Englishmen Deschamps liked, as he composed a ballade in his honour ( no.

Other notable English-language ballade writers are Andrew Lang and G. K. Chesterton ( below ).

There are many easy-to-identify variations to the ballade.

An approach that has appealed to some choreographers is reminiscent of Charles Olson's statement of the process of projective verse: `` one perception must immediately and directly lead to a further perception ''.

It is difficult to say what Thompson expected would come of their relationship, which had begun so soon after his emotions had been stirred by Maggie Brien, but when Katie wrote on April 11, 1900, to tell him that she was to be married to the Rev. Godfrey Burr, the vicar of Rushall in Staffordshire, the news evidently helped to deepen his discouragement over the failure of his hopes for a new volume of verse.

Understanding, as he did, the difficulty of the art of poetry, and believing that the `` only technical criticism worth having in poetry is that of poets '', he felt obliged to insist upon his duty to be hard to please when it came to the review of a book of verse.

A verse familiar to all grammarians is the quatrain: `` I saw a man once beat his wife When on a drunken spree.

So far these remarks, like most criticisms of Hardy, have tacitly assumed that his poetry is all of a piece, one solid mass of verse expressing a sensibility at a single stage of development.

he further reasoned that frequent formulas in epic verse indicate oral composition, and assumed the slightly less likely corollary that oral epic is inclined towards the use of formulas.

Even though the bondage of his verse is not so great as the writing poet can manage, it is still great enough for him often to be seriously impeded unless he has aids to facilitate rapid composition.

The full version of the song from Melbourne Punch, the fourth verse of which is pasted onto the urn

A label containing a six line verse is pasted on the urn.

This is the fourth verse of a song-lyric published in Melbourne Punch on 1 February 1883:

According to the Dictionary of American Hymnology, " Amazing Grace " is John Newton's spiritual autobiography in verse.

Bruce Hindmarsh suggests that the secular popularity of " Amazing Grace " is due to the absence of any mention of God in the lyrics until the fourth verse ( by Excell's version, the fourth verse begins " When we've been there ten thousand years "), and that the song represents the ability of humanity to transform itself instead of a transformation taking place at the hands of God.

* Giuseppe Barzilai goes back for explanation to the first verse of the prayer attributed to Rabbi Nehunya ben HaKanah, the literal rendering of which is “ O, with thy mighty right hand deliver the unhappy ,” forming from the initial and final letters of the words the word Abrakd ( pronounced Abrakad ), with the meaning “ the host of the winged ones ,” i. e., angels.

This verse is also featured in William Billing's popular Sacred Harp song " David's Lamentation ", first published in 1778.

Alcaeus ( Alkaios, ) of Mytilene ( c. 620 – 6th century BC ), Greek lyric poet from Lesbos Island who is credited with inventing the Alcaic verse.

In one of these the writing is prose, in the other a combination of prose and alliterating verse.

The latter manuscript was severely damaged in the 18th and 19th centuries, and the authorship of the verse has been much disputed ; but likely it also is by Alfred.

An example of ancient aesthetics in Greece through poetry is Plato's quote: " For the authors of those great poems which we admire, do not attain to excellence through the rules of any art ; but they utter their beautiful melodies of verse in a state of inspiration, and, as it were, possessed by a spirit not their own.

A number of Roman Catholic writers connect this verse with the Woman of the Apocalypse in, which immediately follows, and argue that the Blessed Virgin Mary is the " Ark of the New Covenant.

In syllabic verse, such as that used in French literature, an alexandrine is a line of twelve syllables.

In accentual-syllabic verse, it is a line of iambic hexameter-a line of six feet or measures (" iambs "), each of which has two syllables with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

" Pretty Little Picture " is frequently dropped from productions of the show, and one verse of " I'm Calm " is also frequently trimmed.