and in a loosely iambic pattern.The last line of each four-line stanza shortens to tetrameter,with only four stresses,as in"And live alone in the bee-loud glade".Each of the three stanzas has the same abab rhyme scheme.Formally,this poem is somewhat unusual for Yeats:he rarely worked wit...
the City of Worcester; she had the first electric lights—and had them nine years before the White House. When the Fall River Line brought out its own great iron double-hulled ship,
LaSalle pushed as far west as the thundering falls on the Niagara River between Lakes Erie and Ontario and in 1679, built the first large sailing ship on the western Great Lakes, the Griffin. LaSalle’s expedition on its way south on the upper Illinois River looking for open water. They ...
Sailing o’er life’s solemn main,A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,Seeing shall take heart again.Let us, then, be up and doing,With a heart for any fate;Still achieving, still pursuing,Learn to labor and to wait. 5. Still I Rise by Maya Angelou You may write me down in historyWith...
Then where did they come from, all those things he said when he’d had a drink too many and started by attacking Nancy before assailing society as a whole? They had to spring from somewhere. The same phenomenon occurred each time, and each time his rebellion followed exactly the same cou...
The only time I ever enjoy writing is when I’m in the middle of it. Once I finish–and I mean like 10 minutes after I write the last word of the first draft–I feel like I just got back from a friend’s funeral and all that’s left is some absurd memory of something they ...
Charlie, her partner, told the funeral ceremony: “Greta was the best thing that ever happened to me, she was such a blessing in my life. “I just wish we had more time together, because our time together was so good. It was such a short time, but ...
The poem’s opening line establishes rhythmic beat of successive iambs (short-long): “Sweetday, socool, socalm, sobright.” This pattern is more or less followed in the first three lines of the first three quatrains, but each fourth line slams on the brakes with its sober message of ...
As the sight of land is welcome to men who are swimming towards the shore, when Neptune has wrecked their ship with the fury of his winds and waves; a few alone reach the land, and these, covered with brine, are thankful when they find themselves on firm ground and out of danger--...
funeral procession I subtract 50 percent from the curative power of medicines. If you will get her to ask one question about the new winter styles in cloak sleeves I will promise you a one-in-five chance for her, instead of one in ten.” ...