stanzas

References to John can be found in some of his brother's works, such as in The Character of the Happy Warrior, Stepping Westward and Elegiac Stanzas.

He reads from a stack of loose papers, his hands moving in time with the stanzas he spits like rap bars.

They spoke on a recent day in their Berlin studio as they giggled and tripped over their own stanzas — which exploit a feature of German grammar that crams nouns together into strings of syllables.

He reads from a stack of loose papers, his hands moving in time with the stanzas he spits like rap bars.

Later, Dodin cooks an equally elaborate meal just for Eugénie, who sits in the dining room alone as courses are reverently brought out — sauce is added so carefully it’s like a sacrament — like stanzas in a romantic poem.