The collection is completed by 48 "epigrams" written in the elegiac distich, or pair of verse lines, and extending between 2 and 12 lines, a limit exceeded only by two poems, one of 26 lines and the other of 16.
On this CD, the hip-hop synthesizer whiz Swizz Beatz remixes "Dale Don Dale" and adds a pair of suave verses by Fabolous; on "Hold You Down (Remix)," Don Omar and Mr. Lind remake a Jennifer Lopez song as a reggaetón track.
But this period has also produced some of the liveliest rapping Lil Wayne has produced since his pre-Rikers era, including a pair of piercing guest verses written for new albums by Chance the Rapper and Solange Knowles.
With Yom Kippur approaching, Rabbi Shemtov was trying to encourage Mr. Greenfield to do the tefillin prayer — which includes strapping a pair of black leather boxes containing biblical verses around the head and on the arm, hand and fingers and reciting a prayer declaring loyalty to God and a request for blessing.
Our political counselor, Nic Hailey -- an English lit major -- was even moved to turn all of this into verse -- I've included his pair of sonnets (the classic form for love poetry) below.
It is written in blank verse and depicts a pair of neighbouring farmers working together on the annual chore of rebuilding their common wall.
An F.B.I. memo revealed that the cryptic verse, addressed to a pair of botanists in Washington, D.C., was simply a few wistful lines from a classic Japanese poem.
He wore a beret, played the accordion, doodled constantly, wrote excruciating light verse, and carried a pair of chopsticks in the breast pocket of his jacket so that he could snatch food from other people's plates.
For Protect Ya Neck, he plucks a pair of amateur MCs from the crowd to deliver verses originally cut by Method Man and Ol' Dirty Bastard, promising the crowd they "can boo them if they fuck up".
