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

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.

Usually, only the second and fourth line of a quatrain are rhymed ( in the scheme a, b, c, b ), which has been taken to suggest that, originally, ballads consisted of couplets ( two lines ) of rhymed verse, each of 14 syllables.

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 line, which lacks a proper caesura, is translated " Not every critic sees an inharmonious verse.

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.:

During the early 20th century, the rhymed epigram couplet form developed into a fixed verse image form, with an integral title as the third line.

Adelaide Crapsey codified the couplet form into a two line rhymed verse of ten syllables per line with her image couplet poem On Seeing Weather-Beaten Trees, first published in 1915.

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.

However, in fandangos and fandango-derived styles, fourths and sixths can often be found, especially at the beginning of each line of verse.

The metre is often denoted by a row of figures besides the name of the tune, such as " 87. 87. 87 ", which would inform the reader that each verse has six lines, and that the first line has eight syllables, the second has seven, the third line eight, etc.

The hendecasyllable is a line of eleven syllables, used in Ancient Greek and Latin quantitative verse as well as in medieval and modern European poetry.

Hexameter is a metrical line of verse consisting of six feet.

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 place of using feet, alliterative verse of old Germanic languages such as Old English and Old Norse divided each line into two half-lines.

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 ':

In poetry, a monometer is a line of verse with just one metrical foot, exemplified by this portion of Robert Herrick's " Upon His Departure Hence ":

Meter is the definitive pattern established for a verse ( such as iambic pentameter ), while rhythm is the actual sound that results from a line of poetry.

Vladimir Nabokov noted that overlaid on top of the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of verse was a separate pattern of accents resulting from the natural pitch of the spoken words, and suggested that the term " scud " be used to distinguish an unaccented stress from an accented stress.

A bold line of violet broke loose from the high ridge of the mountains, followed by feathers of red that swept the last stars from the sky.

Mike took the bayonet from Dean's hand and slashed the picket line.

The river was only a few blocks away but an unbroken line of piers prevented me from seeing it.

The husband points the steps out with his flashlight: `` Its white stare filling her pale eyes To the blind brim with appetite, Bleaching her hands that grazed my thighs And sent us from the table in surprise To let the dishes soak all night, '' ( Mary Jane asked herself if Meredith was blushing at this line, or was it the fire??

so that a line running down the length of the South marking the upper limits of tidewater would roughly divide the Old South from the new, but with, of course, important minority enclaves.

The line of an eyebrow, the color of the skin, a ghazal from Hafiz, the purity of spring water, the long afternoon among the boughs which crowd the upper story of a pavilion -- these things are noticed, judged, and valued.

At this period the thirty-year old Helion was ranked `` as one of the mature leaders of the modern movement '', according to Herbert Read, `` and in the direct line of descent from Cezanne, Seurat, Gris and Leger ''.

Sighting a line from the bridge to a small field directly to the side, I pitched the tent that evening on the stateless `` line '', digging a small trench around it as best I could with a toy spade donated by a neighborhood child.

The Fourth Corps assaulted and carried a small portion of the enemy works but could not hold possession of the gain for want of cooperation from the balance of the line.

At headquarters -- sufficiently far from the firing line to make you forget occasionally that you were in a war -- Lewis found that the Commander in Chief's only desk was his knees ( and his only comb, his fingers ).

Finally, colleges and clubs took the line that speakers from England were not wanted any longer, even speakers like S.K., so unlike the novelists and poets who had patronized the Americans for many years.

Competition from other steamship lines has cut Cunard's share of sea passengers from one-third to one-fourth and this year the line showed a marked drop of profits on the Atlantic run.

The decline of the Cunard line from its position of dominance in Atlantic travel is a significant development in the history of transportation.

There was an air of blindness in her gray eyes, the startled-horse look that ultimately comes to some women who are born at the end of an ancestral line long since divorced from money-making and which, besides, has kept its estate intact.

It expanded from hand screw machines to automatic screw machines, from simple formed-tooth gear cutting machines to gear hobbing machines and a large contract gear manufacturing business, from rudimentary belt-driven universal milling machines to a broad line of elaborately controlled knee-type and manufacturing type milling machines.

Scribe a line across the bar on the other end of the tappet, 1/4'' '' plus half the diameter of the 2-56 screw head ( about 5/64'' '' ) away from the frame edge.

Then lay a three-inch-wide strip of cloth along the keel line from the transom to the point of the stem.

Its oil for heating is metered monthly to each home from a line that starts at a central storage point.

Borrowing a line from Don Marquis' Mehitabel.

Field shifts were derived from the mean value of the resonance line, defined as the field about which the first moment is zero.