To express himself he invented a nine-line stanza, the first eight of five stresses and the last of six, whose rhyme pattern is ababbcbcc.
This verse, beginning "We give them honour and song", is more effective if read as a three-line stanza, ending on "But the old inherit the earth".
The square is the dominant configuration in Scully's abstracts, and the same shape – representing neat agricultural fields and the dimensions of a four-line stanza – recurs throughout Heaney's verse, overlapping, in a sequence called Squarings, with a type of throw used in a children's game of marbles.
The meter of Poem 8, "On the Twin Universities," iambic strophe, is a two-line stanza, found in Horace's Epodes, and often in poems of irony and satire.
Then she had to work out what word to use as an end-rhyme, a word that will rhyme with "eyes", since the third and fifth line of each five-line stanza of "North Haven" ends on a rhyme.
For the villanelle they prescribe five three-line stanzas followed by one four-line stanza in the scheme A 1 bA 2 abA 1 abA 2 abA 1 abA 2 abA 1 A 2. The first and third lines, A 1 and A 2, are "refrain" lines that must be repeated three times and positioned precisely as shown.
The Mutabilitie Cantos employ the new nine-line stanza Spenser had created for The Faerie Queene: eight iambic pentameter lines followed by a ninth line of six iambic feet (an alexandrine), the rhyme scheme of which is ababbcbcc.
Spenser had a strong influence upon his immediate successors, and the sensuous features of his poetic style, as well as his nine-line stanza form, were later admired and imitated by such poets as Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley in the Romantic period of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Prompted by his Zen meditation training, Naparstek wrote a flurry of haiku--three-line stanzas in the classic Japanese 5-7-5 syllable form--and themd them on lampposts along Clinton Street.
They added a title page, on the reverse side of which they printed ten four-line stanzas that provide the reader with what amounts to a reasoned table of contents.
