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STROPHIC STRUCTURES
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Tu, voce sbigottita e deboletta
ch’esci piangendo de lo cor dolente,
coll’anima e con questa ballatetta
va’ ragionando della strutta mente.
Voi troverete una donna piacente,
di sı̀ dolce intelletto
che vi sarà diletto
starle davanti ognora.
Anim’, e tu l’adora
sempre, nel su’ valore.
Cavalcanti ‘Perch’i’ no spero...’
Irregular structures
Modern verse often exhibits an irregular structure of strophes or stanzas
of varying length [ leaves ]; more traditional compositions [ mariner ] may
also present occasional irregularities of form within an otherwise uniform
structure. In such cases, it is necessary to identify the start of a strophe
explicitly by placing the \stropha command before the first line. If such
explicit mark-up is needed only in some section of the text, while in the
remaining parts the structure is defined by \Forma \stropha, the boundaries
of the section may be set in two ways: 1) by enclosing the section to which
the explicit mark-up applies in a TEX group, or 2) by placing the \stropha*
command at the end of the section; both methods are used in the example.
\Forma \stropha {010101\\1.5em}
\Facies
{\spatium {1ex}}
It was many and many a year ago,
[...]
\stropha
And this was the reason that, long ago,
\\In this kingdom by the sea,
[...]
\stropha*
[...]
{
\stropha
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
\\Of those who were older than we \textendash
\\Of many far wiser than we \textendash
[...]
\stropha
For the moon never beans, without bringing me dreams