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Neither is the only opera by Morton Feldman, dating from 1977. [1] Its libretto is a 16-line poem by Samuel Beckett. [2] Composer and librettist had met in Berlin two years earlier with plans for a collaboration for Rome Opera.
A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song.It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other.
Critics such as Traian Păunescu-Ulmu regard "Out of All the Masts" as anticipating later developments in "pure poetry", due to its "impeccable clarity". [1]Various authors have stated their admiration for "Out of All the Masts" in terms of its song-like qualities—himself a poet, Ștefan Iureș summarized its harmonies as "the famous lull" (faimoasa legănare); [2] novelist Mihail Sadoveanu ...
It employs a 16-line form, described as (and working like) a sonnet, linking together the work's fifty narrative episodes. Essentially the stanza is made up of four quatrains of enclosed rhyme , rhythmically driven forward over these divisions so as to allow a greater syntactical complexity "more readily associated with the realist novel than ...
The sonnet is written in iambic pentameter, a type of metre in which each line is based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions. The fifth line exhibits a regular iambic pattern: × / × / × / × / × / Now stand you on the top of happy hours, (16.5) / = ictus, a metrically strong syllabic position. × = nonictus.
Items include poems such as a copy of "A Boy's Sorrow", a 16-line poem about the death of a neighbor which appears never to have been published and a collection, Quiet Streams, again with some unpublished poems.
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The first published (toward the end of Book I of The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, 1590 [16]) is the double sestina "Ye Goatherd Gods". In this variant the standard end-word pattern is repeated for twelve stanzas, ending with a three-line envoi, resulting in a poem of 75 lines. Two others were published in subsequent editions of the Arcadia ...