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off from others by a blank line or indentation. Stanzas can have regular rhyme and metrical schemes, but they are not required to have either. There are...

(1550–1620). It is also sometimes known as the Scottish stanza or six-line stave. It is found in Middle English in the Romance of Octovian (Octavian). It...

the underlying metrical structure, as opposed to other devices such as rhyme. The most commonly studied traditions of alliterative verse are those found...

stressed syllables is alliterated, usually the first—this is the "head-stave" (or, hǫfuðstafr). The word "line" and "couplet" need some clarification...

version of the word is stave, meaning the stressed syllable in a metric verse. There are various types of stev: gamlestev (old stave) is the oldest type...

Fitch. Her father was a teacher who moved to Maples to co-found a barrel stave factory. Her mother was a teacher. Fitch moved with her mother to Hopkinton...

that the children he grew up with employed the Dozens to kill time and stave off boredom, in the way that whites might play Scrabble. Brown asserts playing...

diagrams to explain rap's triplets, flams, rests, rhyme schemes, runs of rhyme, and breaking rhyme patterns, among other techniques. Similar systems are...

dead on the page until some voice brings it to life, just as music on the stave is no more than instructions to the player. A skilled musician can imagine...

its several forms, in art, literature, and songs, including the nursery rhyme "London Bridge Is Falling Down", and the epic poem The Waste Land by T....

Warren Cowgill. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Beech Stave Press. p. xlvii. ISBN 0-9747927-1-3. the first syllable rhymes with know, not with how. "Indo-European languages...

August 19, 2022. Brian Pacus (August 19, 2022). "Senate progressives aim to stave of establishment challengers". Crain's New York Business. Retrieved August...

winnings. Written in stanzas of alliterative verse, each of which ends in a rhyming bob and wheel, it draws on Welsh, Irish, and English stories, as well as...

sensationally labeled these assonances "the earliest rhyme in the history of human literature", though the word 'rhyme' is slightly misleading because the consonants...

WordNet listing. Retrieved 16 August 2015. Gazzah, Miriam (2008). Rhythms and Rhymes of Life: Music and Identification Processes of Dutch-Moroccan Youth. Amsterdam...

quatrain with an alternating rhyme scheme is often referred to as the "heroic quatrain", the "heroic stanza" or the "four-line stave". It came to prominence...

seen as important historical landmarks. The first was Norway's Fantoft Stave Church, which was burnt to the ground in June 1992. Police believe Varg...

 2011 (2011-04-29) 303b 2.30 Inspired by the lost verse from the nursery rhyme, "The Cat And The Fiddle", the boys decide to take some cows to the moon...

Times into the receivership of Alfred Ely, who doubted Ochs's ability to stave off Hearst, Pulitzer, and James Gordon Bennett Jr., but had a change of...

the subject of numerous books and stage plays. It is commemorated by the rhyme: They cut his throat from ear to ear, His head they battered in. His name...