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