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The Course of Time is a ten-book poem in blank verse, first published in 1827. [2] It was the last published and most famous work of Scottish poet Robert Pollok . The first edition of the poem sold 12,000 copies, and by its fourth edition it had sold 78,000 copies and become well known even in North America .
The poem is written in iambic tetrameter in the Rubaiyat stanza created by Edward FitzGerald, who adopted the style from Hakim Omar Khayyam, the 12th-century Persian poet and mathematician. Each verse (save the last) follows an AABA rhyming scheme , with the following verse's A line rhyming with that verse's B line, which is a chain rhyme ...
The poem consists of four stanzas of five lines each. With the rhyme scheme as ABAAB, the first line rhymes with the third and fourth, and the second line rhymes with the fifth. The meter is iambic tetrameter, with each line having four two-syllable feet, though in almost every line, in different positions, an iamb is replaced with an anapest. [5]
Errantry" is a three-page poem by J.R.R. Tolkien, first published in The Oxford Magazine in 1933. [T 1] It was included in revised and extended form in Tolkien's 1962 collection of short poems, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. Donald Swann set the poem to music in his 1967 song cycle, The Road Goes Ever On.
Choliambic verse (Ancient Greek: χωλίαμβος), also known as limping iambs or scazons or halting iambic, [1] is a form of meter in poetry. It is found in both Greek and Latin poetry in the classical period.
The poem displays formal elements, but is not subject to one formal trope. The feet in the poem are mostly iambic, but the meter varies. There is not a defined rhyme scheme, but there are rhyming couplets appearing throughout. This homage, but not direct deference to, formality, plays off the poem's relation to (and subversion of) normal poetic ...
The full title was Hours of Idleness; a Series of Poems Original and Translated, by George Gordon, Lord Byron, a Minor. It consisted of 187 pages with thirty-nine poems. Of these, nineteen came from the original Fugitive Pieces volume, while eight had first appeared in Poems on Various Occasions. Twelve were published for the first time.
"How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" is a poem by Robert Browning published in Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, 1845. [1] The poem, one of the volume's "dramatic romances", is a first-person narrative told, in breathless galloping meter, by one of three riders; the midnight errand is urgent—"the news which alone could save Aix from her fate"—although the nature of that good news ...