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Example sentences for "line stanzas"

  • Each of these three versions consists of four eight-line stanzas; the present Ballad extends to 84 lines, arranged in irregular stanzas.

  • This early version is written in couplets, instead of in four-line stanzas.

  • Balade in 9 seven-line stanzas, of no merit, on the theme of the impossibility of restoring a woman's chastity.

  • In 4 seven-line stanzas, of which Stowe omits the second.

  • In 4 seven-line stanzas; the first is allotted to Pallas, who tells Paris to take the apple, and give it to the fairest of the three goddesses.

  • In 9 seven-line stanzas, one stanza for each lady.

  • If there are four three-line stanzas in the original, build the translation into four three-line stanzas as closely line for line as the ease of the verse will permit.

  • The sestina has six six-line stanzas and an envoy: in the stanzas the final words of each line remain the same throughout, though the order is changed.

  • This fourteen lines, as an examination will discover, might be written in three four-line stanzas with an additional two lines as an epigrammatic envoy.

  • This is rather a pretty poem, in 7-line stanzas.

  • One of the commonest 8-line stanzas is that imported from Italy and called ottava rima, abababcc.

  • I composed about the half of those eighteen eight-line stanzas in a semi-slumber.

  • This stanza is very popular, as are also various analogous four-line stanzas in other metres.

  • More frequently we find =four-line stanzas=, consisting of couplets.

  • The four picturesque eight-line stanzas made a practical sermon in verse and song from Matt.

  • The hymn, of twelve eight-line stanzas, is too long to quote entire, but is found in both the Plymouth and Methodist Hymnals.

  • Four quatrains of it, or two eight-line stanzas, are the usual length of a hymnal selection, and editors can pick and choose anywhere among its expressive verses.

  • An epitome (eleven eight-line stanzas) of Buchan's version, with some slight alterations from the way the editor has heard the ballad sung.

  • The King's Quhair is a long love poem in 7-line stanzas, and pure and sweet in sentiment.

  • Author Christ's Victory and Triumph, a long poem in 8-line stanzas.

  • A rimed translation in eight-line stanzas of the Apostrophe to the Sun, Carthon, p.

  • Translation in rimed eight-line stanzas of the beginning of Berrathon, pp.

  • The translation is preceded by a poem consisting of three eight-line stanzas An Ossian's Geist, an appeal by the poet for assistance from the bard.

  • A ballad in rimed eight-line stanzas by Ferdinand Freiligrath.

  • The poem is composed in four-line stanzas.

  • But it must be noticed that there seem to occur some instances of eight-line stanzas, one of which, beginning at l.

  • I have also sometimes inserted four-line stanzas into sections otherwise consisting of eight-line stanzas, in order to mark a turning point in the action.

  • Where Pumpurs used four-, six- or eight-line stanzas, I have done the same.

  • In such cases I have also often switched to four-line stanzas, in order to increase the "staccato" effect of the shorter lines.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "line stanzas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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