Sentence examples for verse draft from inspiring English sources

Sometimes his source was a notebook that he kept on his walks, at other times his published books; and though the gap between his initial notes and a verse draft could be many months, once he began on the poem itself he usually completed it in a single day.

Without breaking concentration from his Latin verse drafting (which constituted his lunchtime relaxation), he simply said "it means it's balls".

Emerson's practice of keeping journals combined the early-modern commonplace book with fragments of his own nascent essays, verse and drafts of letters.

EK Updated at 2.02am GMT 1.54am GMT According to Wikipedia, Leonard Cohen wrote around 80 draft verses for "Hallelujah", Certainly any one of those would have been better than Sandler's.

Eighty drafted verses – and later there would be more, because Cohen chose to change the song for live performance.

Verse drama.

Dylan distilled this draft into four verses and a chorus.

They included a long narrative poem of thousands of lines ("twice the length of Eugene Onegin"), lyric poetry, plays in verse and in prose, and the draft of the novel that was to become The First Circle.

Nevertheless, the classicizing theorists of the 16th century made a determined attempt to explain existing poetry by the rules of short and long and to draft "laws" by which modern verse might move in Classical metres.

To edit The National Gazette, Jefferson drafted Philip Freneau, a minor poet whose verse held less appeal than his polemics.

(Mailer would later say: "I know he was thinking what I was, which was, 'That other guy is never going to amount to anything.' ") Miller drafted parts of "Death of a Salesman" and "The Crucible" in verse.