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.

If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

gave up verse for prose, 1868 - 70 ; ;

the verse of Beowulf or of The Iliad and The Odyssey was not easy to create but was not impossible for poets who had developed their talents perforce in earning a livelihood.

Yet certain aids were valuable and quite credibly necessary for reciting long stretches of verse without a pause.

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.

In the third verse ( see above ), the author scolds the materialistic and self-serving robber barons of her day, and urges America to live up to its noble ideals and to honor, with both word and deed, the memory of those who died for their country.

He sings the sixth and fifth verses in that order, and Stowe included another verse not written by Newton that had been passed down orally in African American communities for at least 50 years.

* 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.

Late in the sixteenth century the " verse anthem ", in which passages for solo voices alternated with passages for full choir, developed.

It became a standard text for the teaching of Latin verse during the next few centuries.

The firm declined Rawnsley's verse in favour of Potter's original prose, and Potter agreed to colour her pen and ink illustrations, choosing the then-new Hentschel three-colour process for reproducing her watercolours.

He simplified his style and language even further for his next collection of verse, Early Trains ( 1943 ).

However, Ogden prescribed that any student should learn an additional 150-word list for everyday work in some particular field, by adding a word list of 100 words particularly useful in a general field ( e. g., science, verse, business, etc.

This verse, in accordance with the Mosaic Law, maintains that the punishment for murder is the death penalty.

He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne.

** Note: Marker wrote and spoke all the commentary for this short film about fruit juice in Alexandrine verse ( Film Comment ).

Bernard Bamberger considers Leviticus 19, beginning with God's commandment in verse 3 —" You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God, am holy "— to be " the climactic chapter of the book, the one most often read and quoted " ( 1981: 889 ).

Such an arrangement is a balance between an exaggerated emphasis on the metre — which would cause the verse to be sing-songy — and the need to provide some repeated rhythmic guide for skilled recitation.

The verse form itself then was little changed as the quality of a poet's hexameter was judged against the standard set by Virgil and the other Augustan poets, a respect for literary precedent encompassed by the Latin word aemulatio.

* Introduction to the dactylic hexameter for Latin verse.

Towards the end of the year, Bowie performed the song for Marc Bolan's television show Marc, and again two days later for Bing Crosby's televised Christmas special, when he joined Crosby in " Peace on Earth / Little Drummer Boy ", a version of " The Little Drummer Boy " with a new, contrapuntal verse.

Changing between ride and hi-hat, or between either and a leaner sound with neither, is often used to mark a change from one passage to another, for example to distinguish verse and chorus.

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.

One example of the evolution of the Latin verse form can be seen in a comparative analysis of the use of spondees in Ennius ' time vs. the Augustan age.

One final, amusing example that comments on the importance Roman poets placed on their verse rules comes from the Ars Poetica of Horace, line 263:

The rhopalic verse of Ausonius is a good example ; besides following the standard hexameter pattern, each word in the line is one syllable longer than the previous, e. g.:

The idea of rta laid the cornerstone of dharma's implicit attribution to the " ultimate reality " of the surrounding universe, in classical Vedic Hinduism the following verse from the Rig-Veda is an example where rta is mentioned:

Propertius, to cite one example, notes Plus in amore valet Mimnermi versus Homero-" The verse of Mimnermus is stronger in love than Homer ".

Enjambment may be used in light verse, such as to form a word that rhymes with " orange ", as in this example by Willard Espy, in his poem " The Unrhymable Word: Orange ":

Most free verse, for example, self-evidently continues to observe a convention of the poetic line in some sense, at least in written representations, though retaining a potential degree of linkage, however nebulous, with more traditional forms.

Kennings are virtually absent from the surviving corpus of continental West Germanic verse ; the Old Saxon Heliand contains only one example: lîk-hamo “ body-raiment ” = “ body ” ( Heliand 3453 b ), a compound which, in any case, is normal in West Germanic and North Germanic prose ( Old English līchama, Old High German lîchamo, lîchinamo, Dutch lichaam, Old Icelandic líkamr, líkami, Old Swedish līkhamber, Swedish lekamen, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål legeme, Norwegian Nynorsk lekam ).

For example, resurrection of the dead, which is exegetically supported by a verse in Exodus 15: " Az Yashir Moshe ..."-" Then will sing ...", from which is derived that " then " ( in the Messianic Era ) Moses will arise and once again sing as he did at the time of the Exodus.

For example, in the verse below, each odd line has a caesura ( shown by a slash /) after the fourth syllable ( daily, her, won ' dring, mother ) while each even line is without a caesura:

Yet a third variation is catalexis, where the end of a line is shortened by a foot, or two or part thereof-an example of this is at the end of each verse in Keats ' ' La Belle Dame sans Merci ':

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 '.

For example, one verse, titled Common Sense, asks:

For one example, he expressed this playfulness in what is perhaps his most famous rhyme, a twist on Joyce Kilmer's verse: " I think that I shall never see / a poem lovely as a tree ", which drops " billboard " in place of poem and adds, " Indeed, unless the billboards fall / I'll never see a tree at all.

The iamb, for example, is the most natural form of rhythm in the English language, and generally produces a subtle but stable verse.

For example, Robert Pinsky has argued that while dactyls are important in classical verse, English dactylic verse uses dactyls very irregularly and can be better described based on patterns of iambs and anapests, feet which he considers natural to the language.

For example, Chaucer used heavy alliteration to mock Old English verse and to paint a character as archaic.

The " old style " verse ( gushi ) is less formally strict than the jintishi, or regulated verse, which, despite the name " new style " verse actually had its theoretical basis laid as far back to Shen Yue, in the 5th or 6th century, although not considered to have reached its full development until the time of Chen Zi ' ang ( 661-702 ) A good example of a poet known for his gushi poems is Li Bai.

He says that “ the plays themselves contain occasional references to the fact that the state is at arms ...” One good example is a piece of verse from the Miles Gloriosus, the composition date of which is not clear but which is often placed in the last decade of the 3rd century BC.

" In the post-Classical period, these rules fell into desuetude, and in popular verse simple assonance often suffices, as can be seen in an example of Irish Gaelic rhyme from the traditional song Bríd Óg Ní Mháille: