An approach that has appealed to some choreographers is reminiscent of Charles Olson's statement of the process of projective verse: `` one perception must immediately and directly lead to a further perception ''.

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.

Understanding, as he did, the difficulty of the art of poetry, and believing that the `` only technical criticism worth having in poetry is that of poets '', he felt obliged to insist upon his duty to be hard to please when it came to the review of a book of verse.

A verse familiar to all grammarians is the quatrain: `` I saw a man once beat his wife When on a drunken spree.

So far these remarks, like most criticisms of Hardy, have tacitly assumed that his poetry is all of a piece, one solid mass of verse expressing a sensibility at a single stage of development.

he further reasoned that frequent formulas in epic verse indicate oral composition, and assumed the slightly less likely corollary that oral epic is inclined towards the use of formulas.

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.

The full version of the song from Melbourne Punch, the fourth verse of which is pasted onto the urn

A label containing a six line verse is pasted on the urn.

This is the fourth verse of a song-lyric published in Melbourne Punch on 1 February 1883:

According to the Dictionary of American Hymnology, " Amazing Grace " is John Newton's spiritual autobiography in verse.

Bruce Hindmarsh suggests that the secular popularity of " Amazing Grace " is due to the absence of any mention of God in the lyrics until the fourth verse ( by Excell's version, the fourth verse begins " When we've been there ten thousand years "), and that the song represents the ability of humanity to transform itself instead of a transformation taking place at the hands of God.

* 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.

This verse is also featured in William Billing's popular Sacred Harp song " David's Lamentation ", first published in 1778.

Alcaeus ( Alkaios, ) of Mytilene ( c. 620 – 6th century BC ), Greek lyric poet from Lesbos Island who is credited with inventing the Alcaic verse.

In one of these the writing is prose, in the other a combination of prose and alliterating verse.

The latter manuscript was severely damaged in the 18th and 19th centuries, and the authorship of the verse has been much disputed ; but likely it also is by Alfred.

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.

A number of Roman Catholic writers connect this verse with the Woman of the Apocalypse in, which immediately follows, and argue that the Blessed Virgin Mary is the " Ark of the New Covenant.

In syllabic verse, such as that used in French literature, an alexandrine is a line of twelve syllables.

In accentual-syllabic verse, it is a line of iambic hexameter-a line of six feet or measures (" iambs "), each of which has two syllables with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

" Pretty Little Picture " is frequently dropped from productions of the show, and one verse of " I'm Calm " is also frequently trimmed.

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 ").

One verse was written in honor of Gabriel, but it never made it into the final version.

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:

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.

It is now common for this to be sung in a circle of linked arms that are crossed over one another as the clock strikes midnight for New Year's Day, although it is only intended that participants link arms at the beginning of the final verse, co-ordinating with the lines of the song which contain the lyrics to do so.

The final verse is 224 words long ( which means the previous verse, its corresponding acronym, contains 224 letters ).

Upon completing the repairs, he knows that he will soon die of radiation poisoning, and asks that they record his last song ; he dies just moments after speaking the final, titular verse.

The original theme song had two verses ; the second theme song had a new ( and different-sounding ) first verse ; and the third and final theme song restored the original first verse, inserted a new verse between the first and original second verses ( three verses in all ) and featured brief lead-ins for the first and final verses.

" In the poem, Ibycos parades the names and characteristics of heroes familiar from Homer's Trojan epic, as types of people the poem is not about, until he reaches the final stanza, where he reveals that his real subject is Polycrates, whom he says he will immortalize in verse.

He was a friend of Chicago songwriter Steve Goodman, for whom he wrote the final verse of " What Have You Done For Me Lately?

The final ( and longest ) verse that wraps up the song.

Let me borrow that ," referring to the microphone tattoo on LL Cool J's arm which LL Cool J accused Canibus of insulting him, went hard on him, and when the final cut of the song came out it featured LL Cool J's verse after Canibus, mocking an unspecified person believed to be Canibus.

The final group where a transaction is made, is amongst the Egyptians in the same verse.

These words were written in 1674 by Thomas Ken as the final verse of two hymns, " Awake, my soul, and with the sun " and " Glory to thee, my God, this night ," intended for morning and evening worship at Winchester College.

This final verse, separated from its proper hymns and sung to the tune " Old 100th ", " Duke Street ", " Lasst uns erfreuen ", " The Eighth Tune " by Thomas Tallis, among others, frequently marks the dedication of alms or offerings at Sunday worship.

Since the stress never falls on the final syllable in Medieval Latin, the language is ideal for trochaic verse.

: E-flat suddenly re-enters with the text " Sterben werd ' ich um zu leben ," and a proper cadence finally occurs on the downbeat of the final verse, with the entrance of the heretofore silent organ ( marked " volles Werk ") and with the choir instructed to sing " mit höchster Kraft " ( with highest power ).

This hymn is also famous because it was the last hymn sung by the five missionaries involved in Operation Auca before their deaths and a line from the hymn's final verse provided the title for Elisabeth Elliot's book about that incident, Through Gates of Splendor.

The tales ( mostly written in verse although some are in prose ) are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.

Since 1600, two successive lines of verse that rhyme with each other, known as a couplet featured as a part of the longer sonnet form, most notably in William Shakespeare's sonnets.

" The New American Standard Bible ( NASB ) translates this verse in the latter manner, and translations in other languages such as the Dutch Statenvertaling translate it likewise: " When this letter is read among you, have it also read in the church of the Laodiceans ; and you, for your part read my letter ( that is coming ) from Laodicea.

) Following Campbell's death, whole groups and even women would be part of the refrain, with regular George Lindsay often singing the first verse.

Misty Rowe, a mainstay member of the " Gossip Girls ", would enhance the comedy of the sketch by singing her part of the verse out of tune ( as a young child would do ).

), as is also the first part of the same verse, " Whoso keepes the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof " ( Midrash Yalk., Josh.

The verse reads: " Men are the maintainers of women because Allah has made some of them to excel others and because they spend out of their property ; the good women are therefore obedient, guarding the unseen as Allah has guarded ; and ( as to ) those on whose part you fear desertion, admonish them, and leave them alone in the sleeping-places and beat them ; then if they obey you, do not seek a way against them ; surely Allah is High, Great.

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 ':

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.

It is also suspected that Matthew 28: 19 is not part of the original text, because Eusebius of Caesarea quoted it by saying " In my name ", and there is no mention of baptism in the verse.

Byrd also played a role in the emergence of the new verse anthem, which seems to have evolved in part from the practice of adding vocal refrains to consort songs.

But when it was transmitted, Moses merely wrote it down like a secretary taking dictation .... every verse in the Torah is equally holy, as they all originate from God, and are all part of God's Torah, which is perfect, holy and true.

L ' Aiglon in six acts and in verse, was produced ( 15 March 1900 ) by Sarah Bernhardt at her own theatre, she herself undertaking the part of the Duke of Reichstadt.

For the most part composed in the metre Ljóðaháttr, a metre associated with wisdom verse, Hávamál is both practical and metaphysical in content.

In the following verse, which may or may not be related, it is mentioned that during the reign of Hezekiah, part of the tribe came to the land of some Meunim, and slaughtered them, taking the land in their place.

As the next verse shows, this spiritual call does not arise from any supposed " need " on the part of the Creator, who is self-sufficient and infinite in His power, but is designed as an instrument for the inner development of the worshiper, who, by the act of his conscious self-surrender to the all-pervading Creative Will, may hope to come closer to an understanding of that Will and, thus closer to Allah Himself.

Using, for the most part, his own compositions it exemplifies the types of verse forms used in Old Norse poetry.

Using, for the most part, his own compositions, it exemplifies the types of verse forms used in Old Norse poetry.

Epode, in verse, is the third part of an ode, which followed the strophe and the antistrophe, and completed the movement.

The first three seasons featured an instrumental part at the end of the theme, but in the fourth season, the original last verse of the TV version of the theme song, " Sharing the laughter and love ," was added in its place.

Despite this international recognition, it is curious to note that, as a poet, Flora Brovina has never been part of the literary establishment of Kosovo, nor has her verse found its way into the mainstream of contemporary Albanian literature.

Atta Troll was not published until 1847, but Deutschland appeared in 1844 as part of a collection Neue Gedichte (" New Poems "), which gathered all the verse Heine had written since 1831.

In Chrétien de Troyes's Perceval, the Story of the Grail, the greater part of the verse focuses on Gawain rather than on the character after whom it is named.

In the latter part of the 17th century, the Principal, Dr William Thornton, provided a proper gate for the Catte Street entrance of the Hall, and decorated with a device of a drinking hart with the motto (' As the hart panteth after the water brooks ', taken from Psalm 42, verse 1, but in a peculiar translation ).

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 ).