Barnabe Barnes was well acquainted with the work of contemporary French sonneteers, to whom he is largely indebted, and he borrows his title, apparently, from a Neapolitan writer of Latin verse, Hieronymus Angerianus.

The last verse of the song borrows the musical arrangement of the theme song for The Godfather movies.

The nursery rhyme " Billy Boy " borrows the verse structure and the narrative format about a suitor visiting his lover, with a happier ending.

The conference borrows its name from the verse in the Bible " The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it.

Albright and Mann note that Cicero described Rome as light to the world, but that it is unlikely that this verse borrows from him.

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.

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.

In this work, Alan uses prose and verse to illustrate the way in which nature defines its own position as inferior to that of God.

The Beatles ' 1968 track " Back in the U. S. S. R " references the instrument in its final verse (" Let me hear your balalaikas ringing out / Come and keep your comrade warm ").

Short verse dialogues between Death and each of its victims, which could have been performed as plays, can be found in the direct aftermath of the Black Death in Germany ( where it was known as the Totentanz, and in Spain as la Danza de la Muerte ).

Poets have explained that free verse, despite its freedom, is not free.

Some poets have considered free verse restrictive in its own way.

Beyond its first verse, which is consistent, it has many historic and extant versions: Since its first publication, different verses have been added and taken away and, even today, different publications include various selections of verses in various orders.

Another form of hendecasyllabic verse is the " Sapphic " ( so named for its use in the Sapphic stanza ), with the pattern:

In this form, its defining feature is a constant stress on the tenth syllable, so that the number of syllables in the verse may vary, equaling eleven in the usual case where the final word is stressed on the penultimate syllable.

A single verse is not poetry unless it is a one-verse poem ; and even the finest line draws its life from its context.

In 1992 one commentator who claimed to be able to contact Nostradamus under hypnosis even had him ' interpreting ' his own verse X. 6 ( a prediction specifically about floods in southern France around the city of Nîmes and people taking refuge in its collosse, or Colosseum, a Roman amphitheatre now known as the Arènes ) as a prediction of an undated attack on the Pentagon, despite the historical seer's clear statement in his dedicatory letter to King Henri II that his prophecies were about Europe, North Africa and part of Asia Minor.

I believed its own claim about itself, that it was determined to translate exactly what was there, and inject no extra paraphrasing or interpretative glosses .... Disillusionment set in over the next two years, as I lectured verse by verse through several of Paul's letters, not least Galatians and Romans.

At the time of his death in 1971, the New York Times said his " droll verse with its unconventional rhymes made him the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry ".

But poetry remains distinguished from prose by its form ; some regard for basic formal structures of poetry will be found in even the best free verse, however much such structures may appear to have been ignored.

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.

This vacillation between meter and word stress highlights the fact that Latin literature was still in its infancy, and that there was not yet a standard way to write verse.

* Cerdd Dant ( string music ) or Canu Penillion ( verse singing ) is the art of vocal improvisation over a given melody in Welsh musical tradition.

* Lyrics, the composition in verse which is sung to a melody to constitute a song

The melody line is often dependent on the writer's chosen lyrics and can vary in detail from verse to verse.

However, the verse melody of " Rock Around the Clock " does bear a very close similarity to that of Hank Williams ' first hit, " Move It On Over ", from 1947.

Instrumental performances tend to differ from the original version in one of the following aspects or both: the last line of the melody is often played once first as an introduction, and furthermore, many instrumental recordings are of only one verse.

The show's theme song uses exactly the same verse and chorus melody as the GG Allin classic ' Multiple Forms of Self-Satisfaction '.

Within a verse, many chorales follow the AAB pattern of melody that is known as the German bar form.

He revised the words to this verse to make them more obscure, then wrote the melody and part of the lyrics to the refrain ( which then functioned as a bridge and did not yet include a reference to Strawberry Fields ).

Yet, the people of Estonia could often hear the melody, as Finland's state broadcaster Yleisradio, whose radio and television broadcasts were received in Northern Estonia, played an instrumental version of the Finnish national anthem, identical to this song ( except for an additional repetition of the last verse in the Finnish version ), at closedown every night.

) Each of the first two verses is followed by an instrumental interlude ; the alto and soprano solos, " O Glaube ", based on the recitative melody, precede the fourth verse, sung by the chorus ; and the fifth verse is a duet for the two soloists.

Typically in dancehall Cajun performances the melody is played by the accordion followed by a bridge, a vocal verse, a leading line by the steel guitar, a leading line by the fiddle, then a leading line by the accordion player again followed by a bridge.

The verse opens strongly anchored on " Here " in the key of G ( with simultaneous I ( G chord ) and melody G note ) and moves equally predictably to a I-ii-iii-IV chord shift ( G-Am-Bm-C ) through " making each day of the year ".

For example, the twelve bar blues is a specific verse form, while common meter is found in many hymns and ballads and, again, the Elizabethan galliard, like many dances, requires a certain rhythm, pace and length of melody to fit its repeating pattern of steps.

Some Academy members debated whether dance music, with its heavy use of layering, remixing, " lack of melody or verse ", and numerous varieties, was truly considered music.

The verse opens with an F major chord (" Michelle "- melody note C ) then the second chord ( on " ma-belle "- melody note D ) is a Bm7 ( on the original demo in C, the second chord is a F7 # 9 ).

In fact, because of the late date of most Kyries, it is not always clear whether a particular Kyrie melody or the apparently troped text came first ; it could just as easily be the case that a syllabic song was converted into a melisma for a Kyrie verse.

* The Greek singer Demis Roussos recorded a version of the song as well, though he changed the verse melody considerably.

Joshua Steele's disagreement, and subsequent correspondence, with Monboddo over details of the " melody and measure of speech " resulted in Steele's Prosodia Rationalis, a foundational work both in phonetics and in the analysis of verse rhythm.

Each individual verse, pair of verses, or group of three or four verses of a text is set to a simple harmonized melody of 7, 14, 21 or 28 bars ( known respectively as a single, double, triple or quadruple chant ).

He had an extraordinary gift with melody and wordplay, and later authors, such as Edward Lear, would cite Carey as a predecessor for his tongue twisters and nonsense verse in Namby Pamby and Chrononhotonthologos.

The song is in the key of G and the verse opens ( on " There's nothing you can do ") with a G chord and D melody note, the chords shifting in a I-V / 7-vi progression while the bass simultaneously follows the tonic ( G ) to the relative minor ( Em ), but via a F #.

In the refrain, the A section or verse forms the main melody and is harmonically closed with a cadence on the " home " or tonic chord.