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Usage examples of stanza.

In five stanzas, of ten lines each, alliteration occurs in all save twelve lines.

He opened his bureau and brought forth the stanzas of which he was the subject.

The stanzas which follow contain a paraphrase of the matins for Trinity Sunday, allegorically setting forth the doctrine that love is the all-controlling influence in the government of the universe.

Autumn is the note before the last melisma, the third stanza, the congregation fumbling in hymnals to read both words and music.

Some years previously I published stanzas, or a monody, on the death of Lord Byron.

A perfect stanza of iambic pentameter, and the first altar of science had revealed itself in pristine clarity.

Orazio e la sposa nella propria stanza aveva data loro la ingrata e dolorosa notizia.

The rhyme scheme, too, was a formidable one, with stanzas of seventeen lines that allowed of only three different rhymes, arranged in a pattern of five internal couplets split by a triolet and balanced by four seemingly unrhymed lines that actually were reaching into adjacent stanzas.

I find some unfinished stanzas addressed to this son, whom afterwards we lost at Rome, written under the idea that we might suddenly be forced to cross the sea, so to preserve him.

Yet there will be found some instances where I have completely failed in this attempt, and one, which I here request the reader to consider as an erratum, where there is left, most inadvertently, an alexandrine in the middle of a stanza.

For the next seven years, despite repeated strokes, my grandfather worked at a small desk, piecing together the legendary fragments into a larger mosaic, adding a stanza here, a coda there, soldering an anapest or an iamb.

I send you this copy, the first that I have sent to Ayrshire, except some few of the stanzas, which I wrote off in embryo for Gavin Hamilton, under the express provision and request that you will only read it to a few of us, and do not on any account give, or permit to be taken, any copy of the ballad.

He, however, seriously observed of the last stanza repeated by him, that it nearly comprized all the advantages that wealth can give.

Jon-Tom began to blast out raw-edged stanzas full of free trade, reduced tariffs, and an international standard of taxation based on ecus instead of the dollar.

Scarcely had the poetess got through her first stanza, when Tom Ingoldsby, in the enthusiasm of the moment, became so lost in the material world, that, in his abstraction, he unwarily laid his hand on the cock of the urn.