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Antonio Porchia Rain opens with a quote from Antonio Porchia and Paterson regularly works off the work of other writers (often non-English language writers) such as Slavoj Žižek, Li Po, and César Vallejo. Rain contains 30 poems. Aside from the title poem some of the more famous poems included are: Two Trees The Swing Renku: My Last Thirty-Five Deaths The Bathysphere Phantom Verse He's three ...
A thousandth of an inch is a derived unit of length in a system of units using inches. Equal to 1 ⁄ 1000 of an inch, a thousandth is commonly called a thou / ˈ θ aʊ / (used for both singular and plural) or, particularly in North America, a mil (plural mils). The words are shortened forms of the English and Latin words for "thousand" (mille ...
1794, December 30 Lines on a Friend who Died of a Frenzy Fever induced by Calumnious Reports. "Edmund! thy grave with aching eye I scan," 1794 1796 To a Friend [Charles Lamb] together with an Unfinished Poem. "Thus far my scanty brain hath built the rhyme" 1794 1796 I. To the Honourable Mr. Erskine "When British Freedom for an happier land" 1794
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The fifth line in the sonnet, "The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea", references the creation story of Genesis 1:2 (compare Milton's Paradise Lost 7:235, a poem Wordsworth knew virtually by heart), and a similar use of "broods" eventually appeared in "Intimations" in stanza VIII
The Sun Rising (also known as The Sunne Rising) is a thirty-line poem (a great example of an inverted aubade) [1] with three stanzas published in 1633 [2] by the English poet John Donne. The meter is irregular, ranging from two to six stresses per line in no fixed pattern.
Sonnet 137 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet.The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet.It follows the typical rhyme scheme of the form abab cdcd efef gg and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions.
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