Some of these employ the metrical schemes of classical Greek poetry; but the change of pronunciation had rendered those meters largely meaningless, and, except when classical forms were imitated, Byzantine hymns of the following centuries are prose-poetry, unrhymed verses of irregular length and accentual patterns.
42.
Langland's " Piers Plowman " ( written ca . 1360 87 ) or " Visio Willelmi de Petro Plowman " ( " William's Vision of Piers Plowman " ) is a Middle English allegorical narrative poem, written in unrhymed alliterative verse.
43.
In his libretto for Massenet's " Tha�s " he employed an unrhymed free verse that he termed, in " Parnassien " fashion, " po�sie melique " which, like its classical Greek predecessors, was designed for a declamation with accompaniment ( melodrama ).
44.
In 1939, a former student of Butler's, Rolfe Humphries, published in the pages of " Poetry " an effort titled " Draft Ode for a Phi Beta Kappa Occasion " that followed a classical format of unrhymed blank verse in iambic pentameter with one classical reference per line.
45.
This is confirmed by the lines of the unrhymed poem The Rose Bowl, which completes the first part : " And the movement in the roses, see : / gestures from such small vibrations, / that they would remain invisible, if their / Rays did not diverge into the universe ."
46.
According to several sources, references to the " haegeum " can be found in " hanlimbyeolgok " ( the unrhymed verse and songs of the royal scholars ) made in the Goryeo dynasty, so it can be inferred that the " haegeum " has been played at least since then.
47.
"Radical in its form, with its unrhymed lines of various lengths, its lack of punctuation and its broken syntax, Saint-Denys Garneau's poetry was equally original in its themes ( the spiritual adventure of the poet, the nature of artistic creation, the search for purity ) and in its ironic distance ."
48.
Reviewing " Dark Pool ", Howard's fifth collection of poems, for " Booklist ", Ray Olson notes that Howard " writes just about the most natural, musical iambic line around these days, primarily in a propulsive, precise, and vocal blank verse but also in sonnets, quatrains, and unrhymed forms.
49.
Both were completed by early 1516 and are based on classical Greek models, " Rosmunda " on the " Hecuba " of Euripides, and " Oreste " on the " Iphigenia in Tauris " of the same author; like " Sophonisba ", they are in Italian and in blank ( unrhymed ) hendecasyllables.
50.
In April 2008, Henry M . Hoyt published, through Dog Ear Publishing, a translation which preserves the meter of the Onegin stanza, but is unrhymed, his stated intention being to avoid the verbal changes forced by the invention of new rhymes in the target language while preserving the rhythm of the source . ( ISBN 978-159858-340-3)
