Word: rhymed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grand coup, however, is inside: the East Building's central court, which rises through a complex series of levels, bridges, stairways, escalators and ramps to its culmination in the tetrahedronal space frame-skylight. This court is the "rhyme" to the West Building's cupola, but is utterly different in feeling. Here Pei has produced a ceremonial space fit to rank with the main foyer of the Paris Opera or the grandest of the 19th century's glass-and-iron railroad terminals. It projects an encompassing sense of airiness and ebullience, washed by light. From the concourse 80 ft. below...
...forlorn option one more time. In a subconscious way I knew that resignation was inevitable. But more than once over the next days I would yield to my desire to fight, and I would bridle as the inexorable end drew near." During those days, he writes, "an odd rhyme struck me. It's fight or flight by Monday night...
Although the limerick form appears in few prosody handbooks, Asimov followed strict, traditional rules. Limericks must have five lines. The first, second and fifth lines must all rhyme, while the third and fourth follow another rhyme (a,a,b,b,a). There are 13 feet, or stressed syllables, to the limerick-no more, no less. The typical foot is an anapest, that is, two unstressed syllables preceding an accented one (da-da-DAH), or sometimes an iamb...
...Reinig's Quiz-In-Rhyme...
...refuses to be tossed into one of the catch-all bins that are labeled folk, jazz or rock. The kind of freedom Mitchell enjoys on this album is rare, and refreshing, but it is also a perilous freedom: Leave the clearly marked paths of standard meter and concise rhyme schemes, and walk the untrammeled, impressionistic woods. But take care you don't get lost. While some of the songs on Don Juan's Reckless Daughter pass through those woods skillfully and effectively, Mitchell does in fact get lost on many of the cuts...