The first, fundamental form is a stanza of five lines of accentual verse, in which the lines comprise, in order, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 1 stresses.

The song is also well known by the opening words and refrain of the first stanza, "" ( literally, " Germany, Germany above all "), but this has never been its title.

In chapter 13 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, Fenrir is first mentioned in a stanza quoted from Völuspá.

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:

Usually this will be the only anthem sung, such as at national sporting events, and it will be sung only in Welsh using the first stanza and chorus and refrain.

In the first stanza of the poem, the undead völva reciting the poem calls out for listeners to be silent and refers to Heimdallr:

* The fourth stanza was quoted by Lachesis to Zane in Piers Anthony's novel On a Pale Horse, the first of his Incarnations of Immortality series.

A decade before the publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the sequel Through the Looking Glass, Carroll wrote the first stanza to what would become " Jabberwocky " while in Croft on Tees, close to nearby Darlington, where he lived as a child,

The first stanza of the poem describes Khan's pleasure dome built alongside a sacred river fed by a powerful fountain.

Its rhyme scheme found in the first seven lines is repeated in the first seven lines of the second stanza.

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

The poem expands on the gothic hints of the first stanza as the narrator explores the dark chasm in the midst of Xanadu's gardens, and describes the surrounding area as both " savage " and " holy ".

From the dark chasm a fountain violently erupts, then forms the meandering river Alph, which runs to the sea described in the first stanza.

In the essay, Wright described how, as a young girl, she misheard the last line of the first stanza from the 17th-century ballad " The Bonny Earl O ' Moray ".

The Meuse ( Maas ) is mentioned in the ( nowadays not sung ) first stanza of the Deutschlandlied German national anthem.

As an expression of the many Evangelical beliefs, ' Amazing Grace ' serves as an example: the very first stanza ( verse ) for instance expresses Newton's sense of past sinfulness, as a ' wretch ', but also conversion, from being ' lost ' and ' blind ' to ' now I see '.

Examples of such interlocking stanzas include, for example, the ghazal and the villanelle, where a refrain ( or, in the case of the villanelle, refrains ) is established in the first stanza which then repeats in subsequent stanzas.

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.

After the first two murders, the warning notes were rarely ignored.

Her first day at work she was puzzled by an entry in the doctor's notes on an emergency case.

The song " The Raven " featured lead vocals by the actor Leonard Whiting, and, according to the 2007 remastered album liner notes, was the first rock song to use a digital vocoder, with Alan Parsons speaking lyrics through it.

Research conducted by the National Museum of American History notes that the story of Betsy Ross making the first American flag for General George Washington entered into American consciousness about the time of the 1876 centennial celebrations.

He also notes that according to Genesis, the first speech act is due to Eve, addressing the serpent, and not to Adam.

He notes for the first time that the center of gravity of a flying bird does not coincide with its center of pressure, and he describes the construction of an ornithopter, with flapping wings similar to a bird's.

") According to the liner notes of his first ( self-titled ) album, musician Bob Dylan dedicated the first song he ever wrote to Bardot.

" He notes that the first element of Bilröst — bil ( meaning " a moment ")—" suggests the fleeting nature of the rainbow ," which he connects to the first element of Bifröst — the Old Norse verb bifa ( meaning " to shimmer " or " to shake ")— noting that the element provokes notions of the " lustrous sheen " of the bridge.

The anonymous sleeve notes accompanying the 1956 Decca album " Rock Around The Clock " describe Haley's early life and career thus: " Bill got his first professional job at the age of 13, playing and entertaining at an auction for the fee of $ 1 a night.

Charles J. Maland notes that it was his first feature in 15 years to adopt political references and social realism.

However, the possibility of actually constructing a conscious machine was probably first discussed by Ada Lovelace, in a set of notes written in 1842 about the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage, a precursor ( never built ) to modern electronic computers.

The Song Dynasty was the first to issue generally circulating paper currency, while the Yuan Dynasty was the first to use notes as the predominant circulating medium.

The first book, Conan of Cimmeria: Volume One ( 1932 – 1933 ) ( 2003 ; published in the US as The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian ) includes Howard's notes on his fictional setting, as well as letters and poems concerning the genesis of his ideas.

Whereas Travis's right hand used his index finger for the melody and thumb for bass notes, Atkins expanded his right hand style to include picking with his first three fingers, with the thumb on bass.

Given is each element's name, atomic number, year of first report, name of the discoverer, and some notes related to the discovery.

The history of the double bass is tightly coupled to the development of string technology, as it was the advent of overwound gut strings, which first rendered the instrument more generally practicable, as wound strings attain low notes within a smaller overall string diameter than unwound strings.

Fermat was not the first mathematician so moved to write in his own marginal notes to Diophantus ; the Byzantine scholar John Chortasmenos ( 14th / 15th C .) had written " Thy soul, Diophantus, be with Satan because of the difficulty of your theorems " next to the same problem.

As the preface to the 2nd edition ( 1976 ) notes, the first edition ( 1955 ) appears to have received relatively little attention from the literary establishment because of its then-unfashionable Marxist viewpoint.

He also notes that he is speaking to the " Jew first.

He began his travels in Constantinople, taking notes on buildings, markets, customs and culture ; in 1640, he started his first journey outside the city.

" McBride notes the " devastatingly painful climactic scene ", where the young social-climbing son, embarrassed when his wealthy new friends first meet his parents, passes his mother and father off as house servants.

The sautier ( secretary of the Parliament of the Canton of Geneva ) observes the tree and notes the day of arrival of the first bud.