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The Burns stanza is a verse form named after the Scottish poet Robert Burns, who used it in some fifty poems. [1] It was not, however, invented by Burns, and prior to his use of it was known as the standard Habbie, after the piper Habbie Simpson (1550–1620).
In poetry, a stanza (/ ˈ s t æ n z ə /; from Italian stanza, Italian:; lit. ' room ') is a group of lines within a poem, usually set off from others by a blank line or indentation. [1] Stanzas can have regular rhyme and metrical schemes, but they are not required to have either. There are many different forms of stanzas.
Middle School: How I Survived Bullies, Broccoli, and Snake Hill (2013, with co-author Chris Tebbetts), this book follows Rafe's experiences at a camp known as Camp Wannamorra. Middle School: Ultimate Showdown (22 May 2014, with co-author Julia Bergen), this book is an interactive activity book featuring stories and activities with Rafe and Georgia.
In modern European poetry, a caesura is defined as a natural phrase end, especially when occurring in the middle of a line. A masculine caesura follows a stressed syllable while a feminine caesura follows an unstressed syllable.
"The Husband's Message" is an anonymous Old English poem, 53 lines long [1] and found only on folio 123 of the Exeter Book.The poem is cast as the private address of an unknown first-person speaker to a wife, challenging the reader to discover the speaker's identity and the nature of the conversation, the mystery of which is enhanced by a burn-hole at the beginning of the poem.
Layamon's Brut (ca. 1190 – 1215), also known as The Chronicle of Britain, is a Middle English alliterative verse poem compiled and recast by the English priest Layamon. Layamon's Brut is 16,096 lines long and narrates a fictionalized version of the history of Britain up to the Early Middle Ages .
Ottava rima is a rhyming stanza form of Italian origin. Originally used for long poems on heroic themes, it later came to be popular in the writing of mock-heroic works. Its earliest known use is in the writings of Giovanni Boccaccio.
"Maxims I" (sometimes treated as three separate poems, "Maxims I, A, B and C") and "Maxims II" are pieces of Old English gnomic poetry. The poem "Maxims I" can be found in the Exeter Book and "Maxims II" is located in a lesser known manuscript, London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius B i.