The poems taken in their entirety are a surprising ... Slow, serene movement gives enduring beauty to these elegiac stanzas:-- Let down the bars, O Death! The tired flocks come in Whose bleating ...

Poems can contain a number of stanzas. They are separated by missing a line. Like all poems, stanzas can rhyme, but they do not have to. A narrative poem tells a story, but it has rhythm ...

For three stanzas, it seems to be a rather whimsical ... It is the final song in Les nuits d’été, the cycle by Berlioz, which sets six poems of Gautier. They were friends and neighbors ...

Most of Dickinson’s poems are only two or three stanzas long. So it is unusual that “I cannot live with You” stretches to 12 stanzas. (Read it here.) It begins baldly: To announce “I ...

In honor of Black History Month, The Crimson’s Arts Board reflected on their favorite poems written by Black authors, and ...

Three poems stand out from the hundreds she has written ... using rhyme to employ a musicality in her stanzas that is almost constant throughout her work. Finally, the closing lines, “And ...

The best-written poems capture emotions ... Lines are grouped into stanzas, or verses, and poets make deliberate decisions about word choices, and the accuracy and economy of the language.

The poems are bound to surprise ... such as The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem. In 15 lines unbroken by stanzas, Arendt describes Berlin’s U-Bahn trains: “Narrow and crazed,/ By ...

The poems arc with raw energy ... Two columns of five-line stanzas can be read horizontally or vertically. The fragmented ...