Poetry to the use of interlocking stanzas is their use to separate thematic parts of a poem. For example, the strophe, antistrophe and epode of the ode form are often separated into one or more stanzas. In some cases, particularly lengthier formal poetry such as some forms of epic poetry, stanzas themselves are constructed according to strict rules and then combined. In skaldic poetry, the dróttkvætt stanza had eight lines, each having three "lifts" produced with alliteration or assonance. In addition to two or three alliterations, the odd numbered lines had partial rhyme of consonants with dissimilar vowels, not necessarily at
Man in a Landscape (poetry collection) his bones. It is when he says this, indirectly but without evasion, that he succeeds." Man in a Landscape (poetry collection) Man in a Landscape (1960) is the third poetry collection by Australian author and poet Colin Thiele. It won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 1960. The collection consists of 5 sequences of poems, with several others interspersed between the sequences. In his review of the poetry collection in "Westerly" Malcolm Leven wrote: "Mr. Thiele's poems do not rock our ears with motion or swamp our eyes with light, nor do they, at a different level, strike up