In " Henry IV, Part 1 ", I, ii, 42, Prince Hal calls Falstaff " my old lad of the castle . " Iambic pentameter verse lines in both parts are irregular when using the name " Falstaff ", but correct with " Oldcastle ".
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Often the first two words of the common third verse line ( " Lord, how I want . . . " ) are sung as either " Oh how, " " Oh, Lord " or even " Lord, Lord " as cue notes to the simple melody at each 3rd line.
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At the heart of " Fredy Neptune, " a heart that only quite reveals itself toward the last of its 10, 000 blank-verse lines, is a notion so audacious and unnerving as to belong to poetry's flash of transforming revelation, not fiction's tidal sea-changes.
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As with most songs on the album, the lyrics seem intended to draw pity rather than disgust from the monster, using lines such as " Innocence tainted by pure lunacy ", " Cursed by the moonlight / a doomed changling ", and the final verse line " It's maddening / an innocent victim finds his peace ."
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The expected values are then compared to the actual values of the verse line . " Since the expectation matrix can never be fulfilled completely, it follows that one must assume all poetry to be unmetrical in some degree, and the task of prosody is to find the constraints upon the conditions under which a feature may occur in a nonaffirming relation to the matrix.
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Furthermore, Kiparsky's account " is based on a specific theory of English stress elaborated by Liberman and Prince ( 1977 ) as a counter-proposal to Chomsky and Halle's " Sound Pattern of English " . " Conversely, he considers the syllables in a verse line to have a complex hierarchical structure analogous to a core proposition in Chomsky's transformational grammar as opposed to the previous theories which gave syllables a strictly linear treatment.
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In the MTV short version, which was used for radio airplay due to time constraints, the second verse lines that are missing are from " I ain't that mad though, I just don't like bein'lied to " to " I even got a tattoo of your name across the chest "; the video cuts showing Stan meeting Eminem, talking about how his father cheated and beat his mother and showed him getting a " Slim Shady " tattoo on his chest.
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It was H . Mennie Shire and her collaborator Kenneth Elliot-who had produced " The Music of Scotland " ( Cambridge 1964 )-who drew particular attention to the verse lines by James, remarking that " It has been well suggested that King James'name for his poets at court, or their name for themselves, was'the brethren of Castalian band .'" However, apart from this verse, no scholar has produced any clear evidence for any such self-aware grouping.
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The French title, " Berceuse ", means both rocking chair and lullaby, while the English " Rockaby " refers to a synchrony of the rocking motion and the dimeter verse line one back-and-forth per line plays against the recorded narrative . To achieve this effect Billie Whitelaw was encouraged by Beckett to think of it as a lullaby which she interpreted as soft, monotonous, no colour, soothing, rhythmic & [ a ] drive toward death .
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"' Historically "', English syllabics have not evolved over time from native practice, but rather are the inventions of literate poets, primarily in the 20th century . "'Structurally "', syllable counts are not bound by tradition, even very long lines are not divided into hemistichs, and the verse exhibits none of the markers usually found in other syllabic meters ( with the occasional exception of end-rhyme ), relying for their measure solely on total count of syllables in the line . "'Perceptually "'" it is very doubtful that verse lines regulated by nothing more than identity of numbers of syllables would be perceived by auditors as verse . ..
