What is Form and Why Bother with It ?'Closed and open forms, heroic verse, forms of ode, ballads, comic verse, sonnets, shaped verse; these and several more are explained along with examples.
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The most famous work in OHG is the " Hildebrandslied ", a short piece of Germanic alliterative heroic verse which besides the " Muspilli " is the sole survivor of what must have been a vast oral tradition.
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Annaeus Cornutus was banished by Nero nevertheless & mdash; in 66 or 68 AD & mdash; for having indirectly disparaged the emperor's projected history of the Romans in heroic verse, after which time nothing more is heard of him.
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The greatness of a sovereign was assessed also by the fertility and the diversity of regions found within his kingdom and, therefore, descriptions of the landscapes of the territory of a sovereign often form an integral part of laudatory and heroic verse.
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In English, however, it was not enough to designate a single line of iambic pentameter ( an iambic line of five beats ) as heroic verse, because it was necessary to distinguish blank verse from the distich, which was formed by the heroic couplet.
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A Guggenheim fellowship to Mexico was a disaster; he completed only one poem, a great one ( " The Broken Tower " ), and apparently composed only the title page of the heroic verse drama about Montezuma that was the official reason for making the trip.
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In the earlier half of the 17th century, heroic verse was often put to somewhat unheroic purposes, mainly in prologues and epilogues, or other short poems of occasion; but it was nobly redeemed by Drayton, aimed at producing a warlike and Homeric effect, however, did so in shambling fourteen-syllable couplets.
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He published two volumes of poetry : " A Collection of Poems by Several Hands " ( 1744 ), and " Poems on Several Occasions " ( 1745 ), which contains imitations and paraphrases of several portions of scripture, translations from Horace, and the whole book of Revelation in heroic verse, together with original pieces.
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To an edition of " Delia and Rosamond ", in 1594, was added the tragedy of " Cleopatra ", written in classical style, in alternately rhyming heroic verse, with choral interludes . " The First Four Books of the Civil Wars ", a historical poem on the subject of the Wars of the Roses, in " ottava rima ", appeared in 1595.
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His most notable work is his 1800 " Poetic survey round Birmingham, with a brief description of the different curiosities and manufactures of the place, accompanied with a magnificent directory, with the names and professions, & c . superbly engraved in emblematic plates " a directory of Birmingham trades at the time of the town's revolutionary industrial expansion, written in heroic verse and intended as a " grand tour " of the " works of genius " of a " seat of the arts ".
