* In the 2012 game Mass Effect 3 the second stanza of the poem is cited by one of the main characters: Ashley Williams, lieutenant-commander of the Alliance

The second stanza is not necessarily part of the original dream and refers to the dream in the past tense.

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

The lines of the second stanza incorporate lighter stresses to increase the speed of the meter to separate them from the hammer-like rhythm of the previous lines.

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 dome city represents the imagination and the second stanza represents the relationship between a poet and the rest of society.

In the second stanza, Khan is able to establish some order in the natural world but he cannot stop the forces of nature that constantly try to destroy what he made.

According to some critics, the second stanza of the poem, forming a conclusion, was composed at a later date and was possibly disconnected from the original dream.

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.

There is also the imperfect pantoum, in which the final stanza differs from the form stated above, and the second and fourth lines may be different from any preceding lines.

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 ).

Given that the pattern for the first stanza is 123456, this produces 615243 in the second stanza.

The second stanza can be seen to have been formed from three sets of pairs ( 6 – 1, 5 – 2, 4 – 3 ), or two triads ( 1 – 2 – 3, 4 – 5 – 6 ).

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 ).

Alexandrines also formed the first line of the couplet form Poulter's Measure ( the second line being a fourteener ) as exemplified in Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey's poem, Complaint of the Absence of her lover, being upon the sea ( 1547 ).

The second funeral in the poem is that of Hildeburg ’ s kin and is the second fitt of this poem.

The poet also describes the horror of death in battle, a theme continued from the second part of the poem, through the Last Survivor ’ s eyes.

The Beowulf manuscript was transcribed from an original by two scribes, one of whom wrote the first 1939 lines and a second who wrote the remainder, so the poem up to line 1939 is in one handwriting, whilst the rest of the poem is in another.

The second scribe slaved over the poem for many years " with great reverence and care to restoration ".

Apart from a short poem attributed to Mark of Monte Cassino, the only ancient account of Benedict is found in the second volume of Pope Gregory I's four-book Dialogues, thought to have been written in 593.

An example of this is Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire, the second section of which is a 999 line, 4 canto poem largely written in loose heroic couplets but also allowing for frequent enjambment.

In the second part of the 20th century hexameter was used in the longest ever poem, Savitri ( book ), written in English by Sri Aurobindo.

Taken together, the Preface could connect with the first half of the poem to suggest that the poem is from the view of a dreaming narrator, or it could connect with the second half of the poem to show how a reader is to interpret the lines by connecting himself with the persona in a negative manner.

The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon, and is the second oldest extant work of Western literature, the Iliad being the first.

Among its other rules, the jintishi rules regulate the tonal variations within a poem, including the use of set patterns of the four tones of Middle Chinese The basic form of jintishi ( lushi ) has eight lines in four couplets, with parallelism between the lines in the second and third couplets.

In the poem A Hymn to God the Father, John Donne, married to Anne More, reportedly puns repeatedly: " Son / sun " in the second quoted line, and two compound puns on " Donne / done " and " More / more ".

In the expanded second version of the poem, the Sampo is forged by Ilmarinen, a legendary smith, as a task set by the Mistress of Pohjola in return for her daughter's hand.

In spots such as the elbows and knees the second skin is worn off and I realized the aborigines were much darker than they appeared ; ;

Steinberg spoke with warmth and enthusiasm about Italy: `` Rome is my second home.

He must construct transitions so that a dancer who is told to lie prone one second and to leap wildly the next will have some physical preparation for the leap.

The first half of The Charles Men, ending on the climax of the battle of Poltava in 1709, is more dramatically coherent than the second.

Sibylla is pregnant with their second child when she finds the ivory tablet concealed by her husband, and the identities of mother and son are revealed.

The second reason for his popularity is his complete spontaneity with the guitar.

The idea here is one of discharge but this must stand in opposition to a second view, Plato's notion of the arousal of emotion.

There is a second feature of the influences of literature, good literature, on emotional life which may have some special value for our time.

Again omitting recent developments, E.T. Leeds' dictum of 1913 has stood unchallenged: `` So far as archaeology is concerned, there is not the least warrant for the second ( shore occupied by ) of these theories ''.

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.

Even to be `` from hope and fear set free '' is at least better than to have lost the first without having got rid of the second.

Obviously, if this club is going to move from second to first in the American League, it will have to show improvement someplace.

Hank Foiles, backed up by Frank House who will be within calling distance in the minors, make up better second line catching than the Birds had all last year, but Gus is still that big man you need when you start talking pennant.

The 15th Street deposit is not to be confused with the nearby famous Mayflower Hotel cypress swamp on 17th Street reported in The Washington Post, August 2, 1955, which was probably formed during the second interglacial period and is therefore much younger.

The second mistake is Tibet.

Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.

He is interested in public opinion for two reasons: first, because it is important in itself, and, second, because he knows that the American public cares about a decent respect for the opinions of mankind.

The second capability is represented by our deployed ground, naval, and air forces in essential forward areas, together with ready reserves capable of effecting early emergency reinforcement.

A second fundamental principle is that involved particularly in the present proceeding -- the difference between nighttime and daytime propagation conditions with respect to the standard broadcast frequencies.

A second and also good practice is to shear off the tops, leaving an inch high stub with just a leaf or two on each branch.

I like to shear half my plants at a time, leaving one half of them to blossom while the second half is getting started on its new round of blooming.

If the plants are cared for and protected over the winter, the second year is more prolific than the first.