He stops at stanzas of four lines, though of course poets can use much longer stanzas, too.
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Schiff, like Marianne Moore—a profound and not entirely metabolized antecedent—has, instead, stanzas: rigid, cratelike stanzas, which often employ regular patterns of syllables per line.
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These sanctified opening stanzas could be shot by Terrence Malick.
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She reads waterways as if they were stanzas of music.
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Some stanzas relay deeply personal conceptual ideas, in list-poem format.
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Davis's reinventions reminded me of the challenges presented by a sestina, a strict poetic form comprised of six stanzas of six lines each, followed by an envoi of three lines, in which the poet must adhere to a strict pattern that repeats the initial stanzas six end-words in a staggered sequence through the remaining five stanzas and the envoi.
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The latter's opening stanzas showcased how Valee's dexterous flow could become hypnotizing.
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She desperately wanted to become the "jazz type chick" of his stanzas.
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Just as sometimes, often even, it contradicts, and thus works with, the stanzas.
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It is hard to choose a typical example among the poem's twenty-seven stanzas.
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Do I want the stanzas to be shaped like a girl, or a house?
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At my mother's bedside, I read the poem's many stanzas as her breath grew shallow.
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Rather, like the stanzas in Blake's poem, her book raised more questions than it answered.
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" Each of the stanzas concludes, "Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, it's with O'Leary in the grave.
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The result is not journalism of the usual sort, but a sequence of imagist prose stanzas.
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A wondrous mystery opens as the ABABBCC rhyme scheme of the stanzas shifts in the final couplet.
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His poem "The Secret Amplitude," consists of nine sections of three-line stanzas bound by interlocking rhyme.
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Mid concert, Jagger paused to recite two stanzas from Shelley's poem "Adonais," before releasing several hundred white butterflies.
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The announcement's hashtag-worthy slogan "I Have Three Hearts" heads a few introspective stanzas about pregnancy and motherhood.
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Yeah, there are three very separate stanzas in that song that have seemingly nothing to do with each other.
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Take the first two exquisite stanzas of "But We Must Praise," in Alter's translation: But we must praisea familiar night.
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Those poems were cast in rhyming stanzas so they could be transmitted orally over generations before they were written down.
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In November 2015, Kobe Bryant announced his retirement via 20153 stanzas of spare, Japanese-style poetry, which, unfortunately, did not.
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Its five words are repeated over four stanzas in a minor key, which gives it an air of meditative solemnity.
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I've gone to sleep many nights with stanzas of Dylan floating in my head, the words attached to the haunting notes.
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" After six stanzas of looking at the pebble, the pebble then looks at us "with a calm and very clear eye.
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Uniform in construction, with five three-line stanzas, the poems feel less like a series than like a single valedictory utterance.
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This was an idea first put forward by poet and grime MC Eklipse through his Bars and Stanzas event back in 2008.
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After falling behind in the opening set, Albot gained momentum from his opponent's unforced errors and cantered through the final two stanzas.
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The heavy silences between these single-line stanzas suggest a blackout or a seizure, something more dire than a break for thought.
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In doing so, she has emboldened me to recycle some of her stanzas for people from diverse backgrounds who live with cancer.
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Like characters in a Cassavetes film, the people who drift through his stanzas can be found looking over their shoulders at life.
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Hand-clapping routines, rhyming stanzas and intricate rules for tiny competitions; games born of the creativity, insight and idiosyncrasy of children's minds.
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The first two stanzas: I need a butt-shine, Right now You are holy, Oh, sacred Cow I thirst for you, Provide Milk.
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Though the situation's murky, the syntax estranging, the form itself is familiar, for most of the book: left-justified lines, grouped into stanzas.
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Or the self-described typewriter poet, Silvi Alcivar, who composes impromptu stanzas for any occasion and for people who just need cheering up.
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Its stanzas begin to read like telegraphs from a freshly broken world: Every runnel was a Rubiconwhere every ditch was a last ditch.
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In laying out the pages, Bee kept the format of Howe's poetic stanzas and wove her black-and-white drawings around the text.
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In one of the final stanzas of "Live," it is hinted the narrator killed the woman he loved and dropped her in the ocean.
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Robert Xavier Rodriguez's "As: A Surfeit of Similes" has a Norton Juster text, a poem of 44 four-line stanzas in the same rhythm.
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In whatever way the stanzas of a sonnet are sliced and diced, till the very close (they say) our lives are spiced and spliced.
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The two stanzas' forms are almost identical to one another but their contents advocate for opposite reading cadences,each facilitated by the repetitive form.
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Much like Blank on Blank's Bukowski video, Nerdo's animation is filled with charming illustrations and added sound effects that breathe life into these dismal stanzas.
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Before the age of #BlackGirlMagic and the #MeToo movement, Parker's poetry uplifted the experiences of women often overlooked by the stanzas penned by popular poets.
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In "The Summer Tree," published in The Christian Science Monitor in 21968, for instance, the first four stanzas employ half- and whole rhymes in alternation.
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He begins with a primer on stanzas, organized by the number of lines and the uses of those stanza lengths in poetry from various cultures.
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With Purell, I can give it a spritz, wait 30 seconds (three stanzas of "The Wheels on the Bus"), and he is ready to play.
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The two short stanzas of Bian Zhilin's "Loneliness," however, are superbly desolate, beguiling the reader with a naïvely pastoral start before moving to a bleak conclusion.
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Clearly outsized and outmuscled in the opening two stanzas, Henderson weathered the storm of Thatch to earn a stirring submission victory over his significantly larger opponent.
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Here are the opening stanzas of "Water Grave," about a river crossing: We cross under the midnight shield and learn that bullets can curse the air.
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This, along with two phrases that repeat throughout the black-and-white film, make the dialogue itself feel as intentional as the stanzas in a long poem.
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It is dominated by a single voice: Ms. Nixon's, reciting stanzas instead of voice-over narration and cracking impish, sometimes impious jokes with the marvelous Ms. Ehle.
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Smith calls this form a "dozen," referring to "the dozens," the insult game the boys are playing as well as the number of stanzas in the poem.
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When you hear a stanza like this, especially amid a rapid series of similar stanzas, your mind picks up on all kinds of sonic echoes and related images.
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How do you mélange trenchant political analyses, a canny cultural critique of Top 33 songs, plus the drugs you heard them on, invitingly inlaid in such stellar stanzas?
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She's always been an exhaustive storyteller—brimming with narrative-driven stanzas that life in Chicago has written for her—but now the story feels like it's completely hers.
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By insisting on Landon's skill as a poet, Miller ends up leaning heavily on the unusual scansion of single stanzas of verse as evidence of her innovative brilliance.
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Cascades of tiny stanzas in "The Whip" and "Two Ways of Looking in a Mirror" evoke the smallness of the self peering out of a vast expanse of blankness.
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The choice to redivide stanzas and to rebreak lines, as well as to set the poem in the contemporary-feeling world of Mineker's soft palette, invites a fresh reading.
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The sorrow of these first two stanzas confounds, and the broadening of time in the final stanza — such grief is not new, and what do we do about it?
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" I might also make an observation like, "I see many more words in Stanzas 1 and 2 and very few in Stanza 3 — why did you make that choice?
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Here are the crucial middle stanzas from a poem I believe will be read and taught widely, "Mother of People Without Script": Pa j is not pam is not pab .
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A superb new score by the illustrious Kaija Saariaho is also played, sometimes between stanzas, sometimes underneath the words, by the four musicians of The Knights (violin, viola, cello, harp).
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He put his own twist on genres like the corrido, the borderland ballad of four-line stanzas, and the cumbia, which is thought to have originated on Colombia's Caribbean coast.
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The pages contain poetic vignettes that have stanzas and line breaks, but employ novelistic features of plot and narrative arc, spinning strange and dreamy evocations, rich in imagery and description.
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Minnis presents this familiar yet remote and stylized world in a sequence of 39 poems, each composed of five to 10 stanzas, almost all of five end-stopped lines each.
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Over the course of 11 stanzas the reader becomes complicit in the sadistic ride, propelled by the lilting meter and roped in, as it were, by the simple rhyme scheme.
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As a young girl, I started scrawling stanzas on scraps of paper, stuffing the evidence under my mattress, because I was certain that kind of freedom broke some unwritten rules.
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Instead, stanzas like the above — difficult in their easiness, complex in their simplicity — lull the reader into committing the heresy of paraphrase: Lax lifts one stone and he is thinking.
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They are strung together as if stanzas of one poem mourning the "Trail of Tears" walked by the Southeastern tribes of the United States, following the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
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There's the romance of quiet scenes, when Townsend pauses between stanzas, simply looking up at the whisper of light streaming in from a high vent, as if seeing a familiar ghost.
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Unfortunately for lovers of irony everywhere, however, it was also not the work of a 30-something Nigerian banker, as many Google searchers suggested after finding the stanzas listed on Poemhunter.
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" One of the stanzas explains why, "If you cannot preach like Peter, and you cannot pray like Paul, you just tell the love of Jesus, how he died to save us all.
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Reis, meanwhile, sounds like Horace or Catullus, dwelling on the fleetingness of life and love in disciplined stanzas: As if each kiss Were a kiss of farewell, Let us lovingly kiss, my Chloe.
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It consists of some 700 sentence-length stanzas that begin with Socrates and unfold without respect to linear time to draw in figures from MMA, "legit" martial arts, politics, history and pop culture.
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One day, that professor put on a recording of Schütz's "Die Sieben Worte Jesu am Kreuz," a setting of Jesus's final words from the cross, framed by two stanzas of a hymn text.
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Perhaps it's a testosterone spike catalysed by a large serving of the self-proclaimed "macho" peas, but these stanzas of freeform banter poetry encapsulate precisely why Nando's has become such a British phenomena.
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The defending champion broke for 5-3 and served out for the opening set before grabbing early breaks in the next two stanzas and successfully resisting Schwartzman's attempts to get back on terms.
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Duncan mimics the short, poignant stanzas and lyrical observations in many of Brooks's poems — a few of which are placed throughout, beginning with "The Busy Clock," written in 1928 when she was 11.
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Libro No. 1, 1972 is representative in this regard: 37 pages of narrow black rectangles, lineated and clustered together in groups that resemble inverted bar graphs, as well as redacted stanzas of poetry.
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Try Never consists of seventeen poems, each of them a series of stanzas, of which each stanza is one or another form of englyn, a venerable Welsh poetic form in three or four lines.
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In ensembles that combine pattern and asymmetry, in duets and solos of thrilling contrasts and insistence, the choreography becomes the poems' outer framework (dance often proceeds at length between stanzas) and their spiritual accompaniment.
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Those pieces would benefit a lot from re-editing from the original manuscripts so that we get the right notes and the right words and the right stanzas from the right hymns and so on.
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You can feel this in the cadence of her work, and you can see it explicitly in her use of haiku-style stanzas in her longer poems ("9 Pebbles" is nine little poems in one).
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In "Oulipo," comprised of 18 four-line stanzas, the poets writes a homophonic translation of a Li Po verse he saw carved into the wall on Angel Island, which is in the San Francisco Bay.
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"Pause" takes the form of survivor's advice, rendered in second-person chunks like prose stanzas, separated by section breaks, about how for 10 years you will want to smash your car, scream at strangers, etc.
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One of the stanzas actually explains why: they said, If you cannot preach like Peter and you cannot pray like Paul, you just tell the love of Jesus how he died to save us all.
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Her performance of the song "Me and My Rhythm Box" — chanting nonsense stanzas like "My rhythm box is sweet / Never / Forgets / A beat" over digital percussion — makes her the nexus of insanity in this bizarre world.
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The stanzas consist of three chapters in the life of Chiron, played as a wide-eyed boy by Alex Hibbert, as a brooding adolescent by Ashton Sanders and as a mostly grown man by Trevante Rhodes.
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More to the point, it's a style that deprives Baker of his strengths, which include storytelling — he's wonderful at smuggling narrative into what look like meditative poems — and the skillful collocation of lines, sentences and stanzas.
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"You're vilifying us for six months, then you're going to give us a little black-and-white photo of Martin Luther King, give us two stanzas from 'I Have a Dream' and move on," he said.
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Much the same can be said of Wind Maps, with one significant difference: unlike Terra Lucida's couplets, Donahue's new sequence takes the form of loose, aerated stanzas and short passages that hover and drift on the page.
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It is an ideal setting to write these 17-syllable seasonal poems using the classic 5-7-4003 syllable stanzas or to drop the syllable form altogether and go freestyle as most haiku enthusiasts do these days.
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St. Michael looms above the scene, surrounded by seven stanzas of verse; according to Statham, only his face showed evidence of defacement, suggesting that this death-related iconography may not have been deemed as offensive as other pictures.
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Staples, from Long Beach, California, dishes angular stanzas about family, friends, and the ills of fame with a back-of-the-classroom cool, and Kish, from Orlando, saunters through airy half-raps, weaving tales of quarter-life crises.
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In the series, "Coaching Papers," which is named after the crib sheets Som's grandfather memorized on the ship carrying him to America, the poet returns to this world of sounds in 12 poems comprised of four two-line stanzas.
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It is intricate and tangled—the word "ghazal" relates to the Arabic word for "thread"—but it tends to throw into relief a single word, repeated deterministically at the ends of stanzas, like a dead end in a maze.
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By the end, her father's devotion to heaven doesn't seem any stranger than her own obsessions with stanzas and tweets; her mother's sacrifices for her father's vocation don't seem any less admirable than her own husband's life as an amanuensis.
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After the lost were found and the lonely were loved, after the disguises were doffed and the confusions were cleared, after the stanzas and the verses and the boogieing and the bows, Shaina Taub still had one final sentiment to sing.
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Like almost all the poems he's been sending out lately, the ones in this collection are all of 14 lines — three stanzas of four followed by one stanza of two, all centered on the page rather than loyal to the left margin.
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From the administration's opening stanzas — when Mr. Trump let fly his "American carnage" inaugural address — to his swaggering turn last month before the United Nations, it is Mr. Miller's worldview, as often as anyone's, that the president projects on the grandest scale.
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In the opening stanzas of "To Climb or Not To Climb," the book's first poem, Mr. Drummond compares struggling to climb to language: If climbing is speaking a fluent body language, yesterday was all Greek to me … Feet stuttered on doorsteps of granite: a blank face.
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She underlines the ecological message with elegiac "haikus" (actually prose poems in 5-7-5 syllable stanzas), which describe subjects of the book, often with awkward anthropomorphism: frozen water's edge retreating and receding glacier's final breath Using climate change to frame the photographs skews the viewer's experience of them.
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The book shows how poems can be enlisted to radically disrupt narrative: stanzas interrupt the flow and sequence of time by constantly hitting refresh; jagged line breaks appear to sever cause and effect; in place of "days & their ruthless abundance," poetic form offers itself as an alternative calendar.
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Most of the poems here are printed in quatrains, with rhyme that can cross stanzas: All the quatrains in a poem begin with the same phrase (which is also the title) and seem to have no topic in common (most poems that don't use this structure use a similar one, in tercets).
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Given that Khan had been out of the ring for 344 days, some ring rust was likely to be expected, but in the first three opening stanzas, Khan gave a solid showing of himself, controlling much of the fight from the outside, and edging the rounds on points due to superior hand-speed.
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Nakayama seeks to preserve a meditative atmosphere at her restaurant, in which cooks have a chance to "learn and be bored, and have that boredom turn into mastery" — essential for a kaiseki meal that unfolds in delicate stanzas and infinitesimal details including beads of ponzu gel set with the precision of a chemist's pipette.
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With in-line literary references to The Bluest Eye and This Bridge Called My Back, stanzas are rooted in black queer women's history; by using imagery of bodies inside other bodies, both in grotesque and beautiful ways, Kelly examines the past within the present, the animal in the human, the wild in the domestic, and vice versa.
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I recall distinctly how at the end of the silent retreat I was so excited not only to be able to speak again — but to talk about the final stanzas of that poem and what they meant to me: When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement.
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Whose habits she addresses goes unnamed, but how he, or they, harmed her, and how it affected her status as the princess of pop, is clear in the third and fourth stanzas: Britney shows self-awareness and blames "manipulation" as the root of her issue, going on to point out a father figure who did her wrong; an evil dad motif seen throughout the Old Testament.
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"Think of sweet and chocolate," she writes: Left to folly or to fate, / Whom the higher gods forgot, / Whom the lower gods berate; / Physical and underfed / Fancying on the featherbed / What was never and is not The poem, published in 1950, sweeps through the life of Annie Allen, an ordinary black girl who dreams of finding happiness and attaining self-consciousness in 19823 stanzas.
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Here are a few stanzas that get to the heart of the matter:Sometime when you feel that your goingWould leave an unfillable hole,Just follow these simple instructionsAnd see how they humble your soul;Take a bucket and fill it with water,Put your hand in it up to the wrist,Pull it out and the hole that's remainingIs a measure of how you'll be missed.
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