The walls are inscribed with a sequence of verses inspired by the 13th-century Egyptian poet al-Busiri.
They're brought to life by accumulation, a scene or argument or joke building over a sequence of verses rather than in a glib one-two jab, and by misdirection, too.
It must be stressed again that, according to the traditional view, each verse of a ghazal should be unique, precious for its own sake, and that the apparent lack of logic behind the sequence of verses was considered a virtue rather than a defect.
His most controversial work was "The Fuehrer Bunker" (1977), a heavily researched sequence of verse monologues in the voices of Nazi figures like Joseph Goebbels and Eva Braun, chronicling their last days in their Berlin bomb shelter.
He wrote "The Fuehrer Bunker," a sequence of verse monologues chronicling the final days of the Nazi central command in their bomb shelter — as grim and grotesquely unrepentant an environment as can be imagined.
The hokku became known as the haiku late in the 19th century, when it was entirely divested of its original function of opening a sequence of verse, but today even the 17th-century hokku are usually called haiku.
He does this in a wonderfully uplifting sequence of 50 verses called "Love and a Life".
The entire sequence of 385 verses, consisting of three six-line stanzas each, is the self-narrated, confessional story of the antihero Henry, Berryman's poetic persona.
The poets of the Danrin school, headed by Nishiyama Sōin and Saikaku, insisted that it was pointless to waste months if not years perfecting a sequence of 100 verses.
This is made clear by the following example: "A lyrical poem makes possible, through the sequence of its verses, the re-experiencing of a nexus of lived experience not the real one that stimulated the poet, but the one that, on its basis, the poet places in the mouth of an ideal person" (Dilthey 2002, 235).
During the early 1960s, Gunn worked on two extended projects: the long poem Misanthropos, completed in London in 1964-65, about a man who thinks himself the sole survivor of the ultimate global war; and a book-length sequence of free-verse captions to photographs by his brother Ander, published as Positives (1966).
