'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Explained by Humpty Dumpty to Alice;
"Brillig" means four o'clock in the afternoon -- the time when you begin broiling things for dinner.'
Well, "slithy" means "lithe and slimy." "Lithe" is the same as "active." You see it's like a portmanteau -- there are two meanings packed up into one word.'
"toves" are something like badgers -- they're something like lizards -- and they're something like corkscrews.'
The first line can set the tone for the rest of the poem :)
An example of a poem where the first letter of each line spells out a word is an acrostic poem. In an acrostic poem, the first letter of each line combines to spell out a word, message, or name when read vertically.
A Haiku is a old traditional Chinese poem that has 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the next line, and 5 again.
What is the poem's first line?
it provides an introduction to the rest of the poem
it was written by Gertrude Stein in 1913 the first line of a poem Sacred Emily
In the first line of this poem, the poet is using a word.Seriously, we cannot see whatever you're reading at home. The question makes no sense unless we read the poem first.
The line "And he will think about the first snowfall / And long walk home" is repeated in the poem "The First Snowfall" by James Russell Lowell.
An untitled poem can be identified by its first line.
Are you sure you don't mean "On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three" which is an Italian sonnet?
seven
It's called an acrostic poem.