The view of J. R. R. Tolkien is that the poem retains a much too genuine memory of Anglo-Saxon paganism to have been composed more than a few generations after the completion of the Christianisation of England around AD 700.

Catullus ' longest poem, it retains his famed linguistic witticisms while expressing an appropriately epic tone.

To accomplish such a feat as well as they have, they used complicated rhyme schemes that would render a poem nonsensical if any of the key words were changed from the original version.

The poem contains a complicated use of assonance ( the repetition of vowel sounds ), as evident in line 19, " O why did ye not melt, and leave my sense ", where the pairs ye / leave and melt / sense share vowel sounds.

The poem shows Ercilla to be a master of the octava real, the complicated stanza in which many other Renaissance epics in Castilian were written.

Although on the surface “ Lycidas ” reads as a pastoral elegy, a closer reading of the poem shows that the work itself is more complicated than it appears to be.

However, all of this is complicated by the fact that The Cantos themselves contain very little evidence of Pound's otherwise blatant anti-semitism: in fact, in a close study of the poem, Wendy Stallard Flory concluded that it contained only seven passages of anti-Semitic sentiment in the 803 pages she read.

This situation has been further complicated by the addition of more fragments in editions of the complete poem published after the poet's death.

Although dissatisfied with his return to Florence, Boccaccio continued to work, producing Comedia delle ninfe fiorentine ( also known as Ameto ) a mix of prose and poems, in 1341, completing the fifty canto allegorical poem Amorosa visione in 1342, and Fiammetta in 1343.

Ariosto continued to mix these elements in his poem as well as adding material derived from Classical sources.

Carmen Possum is a popular 80-line macaronic poem written in a mix of Latin and English.

Nash repented 33 years after his calumny, penning in 1964 the following prose poem to the Dean of Bronx Community College:

It was completed in 1905 and stands next to Westminster Bridge and the Houses of Parliament, with the following lines from Cowper's poem, referring to the British Empire:

Epimenides was a 6th Century BC philosopher and religious prophet who, against the general sentiment of Crete, proposed that Zeus was immortal, as in the following poem:

In 1856, Carroll published the following poem anonymously under the name Upon the Lonely Moor.

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.

Reviews following months after publication contained limited positive appraisal of the poem.

She is also mentioned in the poem Appius and Virginia by John Webster and Thomas Heywood, which includes the following lines:

The original lyrics authored by Wybicki were a poem consisting of six stanzas and a chorus repeated after all but last stanzas, all following an ABAB rhyme scheme.

Among the most common forms of poetry through the ages is the sonnet, which by the 13th century was a poem of fourteen lines following a set rhyme scheme and logical structure.

One of his best known chess problems is the following, called " Excelsior " by Loyd after the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

She appears in the following verse from the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, along with Urðr and Skuld:

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.

Most of their remains were buried at sea near the island of Vido, a small island at the mouth of Corfu port, and a monument of thanks to the Greek nation has been erected at Vido by the grateful Serbs ; consequently, the waters around Vido Island are known by the Serbian people as the Blue Graveyard ( in Serbian, Плава Гробница, Plava Grobnica ), after a poem written by Milutin Bojić following World War I.

Book Four appeared in 1742, and a complete revision of the whole poem in the following year.

In 1985 he also wrote the following poem, where each stanza is a lipogrammatic pangram ( using every letter of the alphabet except " E ").

and vii., as numbered by Kenyon in the editio princeps ) must be parts of a single ode ( for Lachon of Ceos ) – hence even today the poems can be found numbered differently, with Jebb for example one of those following Blass's lead and numbering the poems differently to Kenyon from poem 8 onwards ( Kenyon 9

In response, Southey attacked what he called the ‘ Satanic School ’ among modern poets in the preface to his poem, A Vision of Judgement, written following the death of George III.

The full manuscript title is Atlakviða hin grœnlenzka, that is, The Greenland Lay of Atli, but editors and translators generally omit the Greenland reference as a probable error from confusion with the following poem.

Josephine Kermode ( 1852 – 1937 ) wrote the following poem about the Cushag.

His rival, Pindar, who identified closely with the aristocratic world and its heroic ethic, never composed anything as thoughtful or sympathetic as the following poem of Simonides ( fr.

The following poem was quoted by the ancient scholar Athenaeus in his wide-ranging discourses Scholars at Dinner and it demonstrates some of the characteristics of Ibycean verse:

The following excerpt is from a poem titled Dream and Poetry, written in vernacular Chinese by Hu.

Prose following the poem points out that the poem refers to Heimdallr as the son of nine mothers.

A poem from the 9th century Ynglingatal that forms the basis of Ynglinga saga is then quoted that describes Hel's taking of Dyggvi:

In more developed, closed or " received " poetic forms, the rhyming scheme, meter and other elements of a poem are based on sets of rules, ranging from the relatively loose rules that govern the construction of an elegy to the highly formalized structure of the ghazal or villanelle.

This meeting forms the basis of the epic poem Karolus Magnus et Leo Papa.

In the biblical poem Song of Solomon, the male speaker compares his beloved to many forms of spices.

Following the Peterloo massacre of 1819, poet Percy Shelley wrote the political poem The Mask of Anarchy later that year, that begins with the images of what he thought to be the unjust forms of authority of his time — and then imagines the stirrings of a new form of social action.

Thoreau had taken up a version of Percy Shelley's principle in the political poem The Mask of Anarchy ( 1819 ), that Shelley begins with the powerful images of the unjust forms of authority of his time — and then imagines the stirrings of a radically new form of social action.

This service, devised by Dunstan himself and celebrated with a poem in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, forms the basis of the present-day British coronation ceremony.

; Univocalism: A poem using only one vowel, although the vowel may be used in any of its aural forms.

The genre-bending fiction of Gene Wolfe combines strong elements of the picaresque with a catalog of other forms of fiction — bildungsroman, memoir, mythic poem, classical drama, modernist fiction, and others.

This poem forms part of the cycle colloquially referred to as the New Oresteia.

The poem in its various written forms was lost by the end of the 16th century, but manuscripts from as early as the 13th century were re-discovered during the 18th century.

The poem continues with an excoriation of " little men " and monks, who lack in various forms of knowledge possessed by the poet.

Theatrical forms known in Spenser's time such as The Masque and the Mummers ' Play are incorporated into the poem in ways which twist tradition and turn it to political propaganda in the service of Queen Elizabeth I.

Scrawled with a Pencil in the Sealed Cattle Car, a poem by Dan Pagis, forms part of the modern memorial.

His songs had meanwhile caught the attention of Franz Liszt, whom he respected greatly, and who like Wolf's previous mentors advised him to pursue larger forms ; advice he this time followed with the symphonic tone poem Penthesilea.

Skeat argued that there are as many as ten forms of the poem, but only three are to be considered authoritative — the A, B, and C-texts — although the definition of " authoritative " in this context is problematic.

The match is drawn after rain interruptions but it earns a special place because it ultimately forms the nostalgic inspiration for the famous poem At Lord's by Francis Thompson.

The stanza forms of the poem is a combination of elements from Petrarchan sonnets and Shakespearean sonnets.

He suggests that Skeith and Innis are based on the Cursed Wave, an antagonistic force featured in the Epitaph of Twilight, an epic poem that forms the basis of The World.

Tang poetic forms include: lushi, a type of regulated verse with an eight-line form having five, six, or seven characters per line ; ci ( verse following set rhythmic patterns ); and jueju ( truncated verse ), a four-line poem with five, six, or seven characters per line.

Although the image goes with a poem about a man drowning, the girl's expression appears incongruous with the text of the poem as it forms what Severin describes as a " mysterious smile ".

Linking it to the monologue which forms Eliot's poem adds a comment and a dimension to Prufrock's confession.