Word: stanzas
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Merrill was gleefully eclectic: he wrote sonnets and sestinas and haikus and epigrams; he worked in heroic couplets and terza rima and the Rubaiyat stanza. But he was perhaps most himself when fabricating his own unorthodox verse forms. He was a born matchmaker, tirelessly contriving a happy marriage of form and content, and the result was a heady range of tonal variations. A Merrill poem might begin like this...
Dartmouth's winning goal came with just under three minutes left in the second stanza...
From then on, the Big Green's defense played tough, physical hockey, and the Crimson managed only seven shots on goal in the crucial final stanza...
Such a hard-luck story befell the Crimson last night, with junior defenseman Geb Marett pulling his groin and dressing up in street clothes after the first stanza...
BOSTON--Maybe it wasn't the game to write home about. After the disastrous first stanza, which left the Harvard men's hockey team staring upward from a 4-0 hole against Boston College, it seemed like last night would be an evening to forget for the skaters...