Sentence examples for form of verse from inspiring English sources

Anapestic tetrameter is a much cheerier form of verse than its name suggests.

And a form of verse drama that would lay this play alongside the greatest literature in the English language?

He concentrated instead on creating a new form of verse, expressing African rhythms, colours and sensations in limpid classical French.

Monometer, a rare form of verse in which each line consists of a single metrical unit (a foot or dipody).

Chant royal, fixed form of verse developed by French poets of the 13th to the 15th century.

They also recollect TS Eliot's assertion that "few things that can happen to a nation are more important than the invention of a new form of verse".

Following the southern Chinese tradition of mathematics, this book contains many rules and problems presented in the form of verses to facilitate their memorization.

Throughout his career he boldly experimented with many forms of verse, and he probably introduced more metrical innovations than any other Spanish-language poet.

But he was sceptical about the place of politics in poetry: "In general, however, it is in mapping out the world in as much detail and complexity as the forms of verse allow that poets do most for political enlightenment".

Mr Ashbery can also be partial to particular forms of verse, though these tend to be of a fairly eccentric kind the cento (a patchwork of other poets' works), for example, and the pantoum (a Malaysian form, said to have been introduced to 19th-century Europe by Victor Hugo).

About 1528 Sá de Miranda made his first attempt to introduce the new Renaissance forms of verse by writing in Spanish a canzone entitled Fábula do Mondego ("Fable of the Mondego"), and this was followed a year or two later by the eclogue Alexo.