It is a love lament, and the insertion of a song in a complicated lyrical measure in a plain stanzaic setting is evidently copied from the Calender.
The 'October' eclogue belongs to the stanzaic group, and consists of a dialogue on the subject of poetry between the shepherds Piers and Cuddie.
Sievers's view is that originally the two sorts of verse existed side by side, the stanzaic being preferred for chorus delivery, the stichic for individual recitation; one form at length crowding out the other.
Rhyme, alliteration, the burden, the stanzaic form, were devised with singular adroitness.
In melody and stanzaic form, we shall see that the two poems are not unlike, but in motive they are totally distinct.
In the three latest lyrics this stanzaiclegerdemain is practised with an enchanting lightness, an ecstasy of sinuous and elastic grace.
One of Poe's greatest inventions was the liquidation of stanzaic form, by which he was able to mould it to the movements of emotion without losing its essential structure.
Holladay, is a long stanzaic and Pindaric ode, whose taste and technic are alike impeccable.
The chief defect of her present piece is the absence of rhyme, which should always occur in a short stanzaic poem.
In a stanzaic poem the method of rhyming should be identical in every stanza, yet Mrs. Haughton has here wavered between couplets and alternate rhymes.
Each stanzaic form has its conveniences, its "fatal facility," its natural fitness for singing a song or telling a story or turning a thought over and over into music.
Stanzaic law must follow emotional law, just as Kreisler's accompanist must keep time with Kreisler.
It must be observed, however, that the English odes written in strictly uniform stanzas differ greatly in the simplicity of the stanzaic pattern.
This distinction between "stanzaic law" and "emotional law" is highly suggestive and not merely in its application to the metres of the famous regular and irregular odes of English verse.
For complete lists and examples of all the various | | stanzaic forms, the larger works of Alden and Schipper | | should be consulted.
Irregular' stanzas sometimes occur, in which the thought rhythm is said to control and determine the stanzaic rhythm; that is, the length of line and position of rimes are regulated by the logical and emotional content of the words.
The stanzaic unit is so easily carried in one's mind and so rapidly repeats itself, that there is little opportunity for the necessary pleasing surprises.
But a frequent kind of repetition which is truly a prosodic phenomenon and which, though primarily an element of stanzaic form, has often an effect analogous to those just described, is the refrain.
Many of these complex stanzaic forms, moreover, belong in the tradition of the so-called Pindaric ode, imitated freely from the Greek choric odes of Pindar.
But it is rhyme suggestions and their influence upon the choice of stanzaic form that have occasioned this mild protest against Professor Conington's precepts of rigid stanzaic conformity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stanzaic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
