| 1. | The opening verse lines, both musically and lyrically, were something of a lament.
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| 2. | This rendition incorporated nonsense lyrics into each verse line, paralleling the frequently accompanied chorus:
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| 3. | The verse line in the newer sequence tends to be longer, looser, more conversational.
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| 4. | The entire narration, recorded in 1, 200 foolscap pages, runs nearly 15, 000 verse lines.
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| 5. | The distinctive vocal line features the repeated " Young man ! " ecphonesis followed by Willis singing the verse lines.
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| 6. | This allows her to compare patterns across hundreds or thousands of verse lines statistically, using a consistent matrix of positions.
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| 7. | Second, it is organ-ized in free-verse lines, whereas the ancient texts were written in a prose form.
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| 8. | For example, in this exchange from " King John ", one blank verse line is broken between two characters:
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| 9. | "Clarel " is a narrative in 18, 000 verse lines, featuring a young American student of divinity as the title character.
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| 10. | A stress maximum syllable is a stressed syllable surrounded on both sides by weak syllables in the same syntactic phrase and in the same verse line.
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