The Alcaicstanza is a Greek literature Greek Lyric poetry lyrical meter poetry meter , an Aeolic verse form traditionally believed to have been invented by Alcaeus of Mytilene Alcaeus , a lyric poet from Mytilene on the island of Lesbos, about 600 BC . The Alcaicstanza and the Sapphic stanza named for Alcaeus contemporary, Sappho , are two important forms of Classical poetry. In Sappho and Alcaeus poetry The Alcaicstanza as used by Sappho and Alcaeus has the scheme where is a syllable weight longum , a syllable weight breve , and an anceps In Latin poetry The Alcaicstanza is distinguished by a complicated variation of a dominant iamb ic pattern. One stanza consists of four lines the first two lines are divided into two parts by a caesura after the fifth syllable. The metrical pattern of an Alcaicstanza would look like this pre u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u pre An denotes a long syllable, u a short one, and is the caesura. another rendering, from the Encyclopaedia Britannic breve breve breve breve breve breve breve breve breve breve breve breve breve breve breve breve breve breve breve breve breve breve breve Horace used the Alcaicstanza in his Odes Horace Odes , as can be seen from this example pre u u u u Antehac nefas, depromere Caecubum u u u u cellis avitis, dum Capitolio u u Regina dementis ruinas u u u u u funus et Imperio parabat. pre An English translation, which still fits the metre, is pre u u u u Prior to this, twas irreligious to waste u u u u Old Caecuban wine whilst, for the Capitol u u Mad ruination plots the Queen, and u u u u u Even a funeral for the Empire. pre The Alcaicstanza was adapted to use in English and French during the Renaissance. It was historically an important form in Hungarian poetry http www.krater.hu regi uj bemut atlant3.pdf http www.elib.hu 00400 00433 00433.pdf http www.elib.hu 00400 00433 00433.pdf . Notes reflist Wikisource1911Enc Alcaics Category Poetic rhythm poetry stub de Alk ische Strophe ext Estrofa alcaica hu Alkaioszi ... more details
About stanza as a poetry term the electronic book reading software Lexcycle Stanza the Scottish poetry festival Stanza Poetry Festival In poetry , a stanza is a unit within a larger poem. In modern poetry, the term is often equivalent with strophe in popular vocal music, a stanza is typically referred to as a Verse popular music verse distinct from the refrain , or chorus . The following from previous edits needs authoritative verification The stanza was invented by English poet laureate, Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 1892 . A stanza consists of a grouping of line poetry line s, set off by a space, that usually has a set pattern of Meter poetry meter and rhyme. font c red In traditional English language English language poems, stanzas can be identified and grouped together because they share a rhyme scheme or a fixed number of lines as in distich couplet , tercet , quatrain , cinquain cinquain quintain , sestet . In much modern poetry, stanzas may be arbitrarily presented on the printed page because of publishing conventions that employ such features as white space or punctuation. Stanza ... www.volecentral.co.uk vf stanza.htm ref List of stanza names according to number of lines 2 lines Couplet ... Other stanza names Ballad stanza Burns stanza or Scottish stanza Ottava rima Sicilian octave Spenserian stanza Balassi stanza Onegin stanza Terza rima Examples One of the most common manifestations of stanzaic ... immediately below in this case, each stanza is to be sung to the same hymn tune , composed earlier ... impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, All one stanza Or bends with the remover ... to every wandering bark, All one stanza Whose worth s unknown, although his height be taken ... alters not with his brief hours and weeks, All one stanza But bears it out even to the edge of doom ... reflist Category Poetic form Category Stanzaic form es Stanza fr Stance gan io Stanco ia Stanza he nl Stanza ja ru simple Stanza sk Stanca sl Kitica sr fi S keist ... more details
Orphan date September 2010 An XML stanza is a concept in computing . In XMPP , code message code , code presence code , and code iq code are the three types of XML stanza that are defined for the jabber client and jabber server namespaces. ref http xmpp.org rfcs rfc3920.html stanzas ref References reflist Category XML compu stub ... more details
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Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 The Burns stanza is a verse form named after the Scotland Scottish poet Robert Burns . It was not, however, invented by Burns, and prior to his use of it was known as the standard Habbie , after the poet Habbie Simpson 1550 1620 . It is also sometimes known as the Scottish stanza or six line stave . The first notable poem written in this stanza was the Lament for Habbie Simpson by Robert Sempill of Beltrees . The stanza was used frequently by major 18th century Scots language Lowland Scots poets such as Robert Fergusson and Robert Burns , and has also been used by subsequent poets. Major poems in the stanza include Burns s To a Louse , Address to the Deil and Death and Doctor Hornbook . The stanza is six lines in length and rhymes aaabab, with tetrameter a lines and dimeter b lines. The second b line may or may not be repeated. Although the Lament for Habbie itself is strictly lyrical, subsequent uses have tended to be comic and satirical. The stanza is naturally suited to comic rhymes, as the quoted passage from Burns shows O THOU whatever title suit thee Auld Hornie, Satan, Nick, or Clootie, Wha in yon cavern grim an sootie, Clos d under hatches, Spairges about the brunstane cootie, To scaud poor wretches Hear me, auld Hangie, for a wee, An let poor damned bodies be I m sure sma pleasure it can gie, Ev n to a deil, To skelp an scaud poor dogs like me, An hear us squeel Address to the Deil A variation on the Burns stanza employs the rhyme scheme aabcccb, with foreshortened third and seventh lines. This form is deployed, for example, in W. H. Auden s poem Brother, who when the sirens roar also known as A Communist to Others blockquote Brothers, who when the sirens roar br From office, shop and factory pour Neath evening sky By cops directed to the fug br Of talkie houses for a drug, br Or down canals to find a hug br Until ... Night . A more recent example can be seen in W. N. Herbert s To a Mousse . DEFAULTSORT Burns Stanza ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 In poetry , a Ballad stanza is the four line stanza, known as a quatrain, most often found in the folk ballad . This form consists of alternating four and three stress lines. Usually only the second and fourth lines rhyme in an a b c b pattern . Assonance in place of rhyme is common. Samuel Taylor Coleridge adopted the ballad stanza in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner , alternating eight and six syllable lines. All in a hot and copper sky The bloody Sun, at noon , Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon . Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, lines 111 &ndash 114 The longer first and third lines are rarely rhymed, although at times poets may use internal rhyme in these lines. In mist or cloud , on mast or shroud , It perched for vespers nine Whiles all the night , through fog smoke white , Glimmered the white Moon shine. Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, lines 75 &ndash 78 DEFAULTSORT Ballad Stanza Category Stanzaic form Category Ballads de Chevy Chase Strophe ... more details
Onegin stanza sometimes Pushkin sonnet http www.thepoetsgarret.com sonnet pushkin.html refers to the verse form invented by Alexander Pushkin for his interpersonal epic Eugene Onegin . The work is almost wholly written in verses of iamb ic tetrameter with the unusual rhyme scheme aBaBccDDeFFeGG , where the lowercase letters represent feminine endings i.e., with an additional unstressed syllable and the uppercase representing masculine ending i.e. stressed on the final syllable . Unlike other traditional forms, such as the Petrarchan sonnet or Shakespearean sonnet , the Onegin stanza does not divide into smaller stanzas of four lines or two in an obvious way. There are many different ways the sonnet can be divided for example, the first four lines can form a quatrain , or instead join with the cc to form a set. The form s flexibility allows the author more scope to change how the semantic sections are divided from sonnet to sonnet, while keeping the sense of unity provided by following a fixed rhyme scheme. Also, being written in iambic tetrameter imparts a stronger sense of motion than other sonnets, which use the more common iambic pentameter . Jon Stallworthy s 1987 The Nutcracker used this stanza form, and Vikram Seth s 1986 novel The Golden Gate Vikram Seth novel The Golden Gate is written wholly in Onegin stanzas. The Onegin stanza is also used in the verse novel Equinox by Australian writer Matthew Rubinstein , serialized daily in the Sydney Morning Herald and currently awaiting publication in the biography in verse Richard Burgin by Diana Burgin in the verse novel Jack the Lady Killer by HRF Keating title borrowed from a line in Golden Gate in Onegin stanza rhymes but not always preserving the metric pattern and in several poems by Australian poet Gwen Harwood , for instance the first part of Class of 1927 and Sea Eagle the first employs a humorous Byronic tone, but the second adapts the stanza to a spare lyrical mood, which is good evidence of the form s versatility ... more details
The Spenserian stanza is a fixed verse form invented by Edmund Spenser for his Epic poetry epic poem The Faerie Queene . Each stanza contains nine lines in total eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by a single Alexandrine line in iambic hexameter . The rhyme scheme of these lines is ababbcbcc. Example Stanza This example is the first stanza from Spenser s Faerie Queene . The formatting, wherein all lines but the first and last are indented, is the same as in printed editions of the Faerie Queene . blockquote Lo I the man, whose Muse whilome did maske, br As time her taught, in lowly Shepheards weeds, br Am now enforst a far unfitter taske, br For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds, br And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds br Whose prayses hauing slept in silence long, br Me, all too meane, the sacred Muse areeds br To blazon broad emongst her learned throng br Fierce warres and faithfull loues shall moralize my song. blockquote Possible Influences Spenser s invention may have been influenced by the Italian form ottava rima , which consists of eight lines of iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abababcc. This form was used by Spenser s Italian role models Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso . Another possible influence is rhyme royal , a traditional medi val form used by Geoffrey Chaucer and others, which has seven lines of iambic pentameter that rhyme ababbcc. More likely, however, is the eight line ballad stanza with the rhyme scheme ababbcbc, which Chaucer used in his Monk s Tale. Spenser would have been familiar with this rhyme scheme and simply added a line to the stanza, forming ababbcbcc. ref A Spenser Handbook , by H.S.V. ... , in the first part of the poem. Bibliography Morton, Edward Payson. The Spenserian Stanza before ... Spenserian Stanza Category Stanzaic form Category Epic poetry de Spenserstrophe it Strofa spenseriana ... more details
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The Sapphic stanza , named after Sappho , is an Aeolic verse form spanning four lines more properly three, in the poetry of Sappho and Alcaeus, where there is no word end before the final Adonean . The form is two hendecasyllabic verse s, and a third verse beginning the same way and continuing with five additional syllables given as the stanza s fourth verse in ancient and modern editions, and known as the Adonic or adonean line . Using for a long syllable, u for a short and x for an anceps or free syllable u x u u u u x u u u u x u u u u u u While Sappho used several Meter poetry metrical forms for her poetry, she is most famous for the Sapphic stanza. Her poems in this meter collected in Book I of the ancient edition ran to 330 stanzas, a significant part of her complete works and of her surviving poetry fragments 1 42 . It is not clear if she created it or if it was already part of the Aeolic Greek Aeolic tradition according to Marius Victorinus Ars grammatica http kaali.linguist.jussieu.fr CGL text.jsp?topic de 20arte 20metrica 20 cum 20poemate, 20compositione, 20structura, 20musica &ref 6,70,11 173,18 6.161 Keil , it was invented by Alcaeus but then used more frequently by, and so more strongly associated with, Sappho. Use by other poets Sappho Sappho s contemporary and countryman, Alcaeus of Mytilene , also used the Sapphic stanza. A few centuries later, the Ancient Rome Roman poet Catullus admired Sappho s work and used the Sapphic meter in two poems, Catullus 11 and Catullus 51 . The latter is a rough translation of Sappho 31 . Sapphics were also used by Horace in several of his Odes Horace Odes , including Ode 1.22 Integer uitae scelerisque purus non eget Mauris iaculis neque arcu nec uenenatis grauida sagittis, Fusce, pharetra... The man who is upright in life and free of wickedness, he needs no Moorish spears nor bow nor quiver heavy with envenomed arrows, Fuscus... The Sapphic stanza was imitated in English language English by Algernon Charles Swinburne in a poem ... more details
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notability date January 2011 StAnza is a poetry festival which takes place in March in the university town of St Andrews , Scotland . Founded in 1998, it celebrated its 10th Anniversary in 2007. ref http www.scottisharts.org.uk 1 artsinscotland literature projects archive stanza2007.aspx Article on tenth anniversary , Scottish Arts Council , UK. ref It is the only festival in Scotland dedicated exclusively to poetry. ref http www.stanzapoetry.org index.php StAnza website ref History From 1998 to 2002, StAnza was held in October of each year. However, in 2003 the festival changed to a regular March fixture. ref http www.scottisharts.org.uk 1 artsinscotland literature projects archive stanza.aspx Scottish Arts Council article on StAnza ref References Reflist External links http www.stanzapoetry.org StAnza website poetry stub Category Recurring events established in 1998 Category March events Category Poetry festivals Category Literary festivals in the United Kingdom Category Festivals in Scotland Category Culture in Fife Category St Andrews ... more details
Infobox album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Nella stanza 26 Type studio Artist Nek Cover Nella stanza 26 cover.jpg Released 17 November 2006 Recorded 2006 Genre Pop rock , Latin pop Length 35 48 Label Warner Music Group Warner Music Producer Nek, Alfredo Cerruti, Dado Parisini, Massimo Varini Last album Una parte di me br 2005 This album Nella stanza 26 br 2006 Next album Un altra direzione br 2009 Nella stanza 26 is the ninth studio album by Italy Italian singer songwriter Nek . It was released in 2006. Track listing class wikitable Title Length align right 1 align left Notte di febbraio align center 4 10 align right 2 align left Cri align center 3 38 align right 3 align left Instabile align center 3 33 align right 4 align left Fumo align center 3 05 align right 5 align left Attimi align center 4 08 align right 6 align left Nella stanza 26 align center 3 43 align right 7 align left Sei align center 3 24 align right 8 align left Ancora un giorno di te align center 3 03 align right 9 align left Serenit align center 3 46 10 align left Contro le mie ombre align center 3 18 Charts width 0 valign top width 0 class wikitable align center Chart 2006 align center Peak br position align left Swiss Albums Chart align center 5 align left Italian Albums Chart align center 8 align left Spanish Albums Chart align center 56 Nek Category 2006 albums Category Nek albums hu Nella stanza 26 it Nella stanza 26 ... more details
Infobox Film name La stanza del vescovo image image size caption director Dino Risi producer writer Piero Chiara novel br Leo Benvenuti screenplay narrator starring Ugo Tognazzi br Ornella Muti br Patrick Deweare music Glenn Miller br Parish br Armando Trovajoli cinematography Franco Di Giacomo editing Alberto Gallitti distributor Titanus Produzione released flagicon Italy March 18, 1977 br flagicon France 14 September 1977 runtime c. 110 min. ref The run time of the film is 110 min. according to imdb http www.imdb.com title tt0146289 and 118 min. according to Allmovie http www.allmovie.com cg avg.dll ref country ITA , FRA language Italian language Italian budget preceded by followed by La stanza del vescovo The Bishop s Room is an Cinema of Italy Italian film directed by Dino Risi adapted from La stanza del vescovo the novel of the same name by Piero Chiara . It stars Ugo Tognazzi , Ornella Muti and Patrick Deweare . Supporting actors include Lia Tanzi and Carlo Mazzarella . Lake Maggiore provides a beautiful and evocative back drop to the action the central events of the film take place around Baveno . In the novel the location had been Oggebbio . Notes Reflist References ITsource La stanza del vescovo film 7301560 External links imdb title 0146289 La stanza del vescovo Lago Maggiore CinemaofItaly DEFAULTSORT Stanza del vescovo, la Category 1977 films Category Comedy drama films Category Italian films Category Italian language films Category Films directed by Dino Risi Category Commedia all italiana Category Titanus films 1970s Italy film stub fr La Chambre de l v que it La stanza del vescovo film pt La stanza del vescovo ru ... more details
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The following meter poetry meters were used in Ancient Greek literature Greek poetry and borrowed into Latin literature Latin poetry in the classical antiquity classical period Major forms Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet , consisting of a line of dactylic hexameter and one of dactylic pentameter Iambic trimeter Aeolic verse Aeolics Glyconic and pherecratean Asclepiad poetry Asclepiad Sapphic stanza Alcaic stanza Hendecasyllabic verse Adonean Other meters Choliamb ic, also known as limping iambs or scazon Ionic meter Ionic Anacreonteus Anapestic Greek meter Anapestic Trochaic Greek meter Trochaic Dactylo epitrite Dochmiac Galliambic DEFAULTSORT Classical meters Category Arts related lists Category Poetic rhythm Category Stanzaic form ... more details
, for example, understand the third line of the Alcaicstanza and other stanza lines as in Sappho frr ... III. One notable form is the Alcaicstanza e.g. Alcaeus frr. 6, 129, 325 339 , but this too is found ... Catullus 30 and the Sapphic stanza Catullus 11 and Catullus 51 51 , an adaptation of Sappho 31 Sappho fr. 31 . Horace extended and standardized the use of Aeolics in Latin, also using the Alcaicstanza ... in more elaborate stanza s or strophe s. Choriambic nucleus and expansion One analysis of Aeolic .... border 1 cellpadding 5 cellspacing 0 Book I fragments 1 42 Sapphic stanza Book II frr. 43 52 ..., the Sapphic stanza, which represents such a large part of Sappho s surviving poetry, is also ... have used the Sapphic stanza. Hungarian poets such as D niel Berzsenyi and Mih ly Babits have written ... more details
Habbie may refer to The Habbie stanza or standard Habbie , also known as the Burns stanza Habbie Simpson , the Scottish piper from Kilbarchan whom the stanza is ultimately named after Any inhabitant of Kilbarchan informal usage dab ... more details
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Multiple issues cleanup April 2009 onesource April 2009 unreferenced April 2009 A strophe forms the first part of the ode in Ancient Greek tragedy, followed by the antistrophe and epode . In its original Greek setting, strophe, antistrophe and epode were a kind of stanza framed only for the music, as John Milton wrote in the preface to Samson Agonistes , with the strophe chanted by a Greek chorus as it moved from right to left across the sk n . Etymology Strophe pron en stro fi , respell STROH fee Greek language Greek wikt , turn, bend, twist , see also phrase is a concept in poetry versification which properly means a turn, as from one Foot prosody foot to another, or from one side of a chorus to the other. Poetic Structure In a more general sense, the strophe is a pair of stanzas of alternating form on which the structure of a given poem is based, with the strophe usually being identical with the stanza in modern poetry and its arrangement and recurrence of rhymes giving it its character. But the Greeks called a combination of verse periods a system, giving the name strophe to such a system only when it was repeated once or more in unmodified form. Origins & Development It is said that Archilochus of Paros Archilochus first created the strophe by binding together systems of two or three lines. But it was the Greece Greek ode writers who introduced the practice of strophe writing on a large scale, and the art was attributed to Stesichorus , although it is probable that earlier poets were acquainted with it. The arrangement of an ode in a splendid and consistent artifice of strophe, antistrophe and epode was carried to its height by Pindar . Variant Forms With the development of Greek Meter poetry prosody , various peculiar strophe forms came into general acceptance, and were made celebrated by the frequency with which leading poets employed them. Among these were the Sapphic, the Elegiac, the Alcaic, and the Asclepiadean strophe, all of them promin ... more details
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