At the Lighthouse event, Scotland's national poet Liz Lochhead will read her poem, Three Stanzas For Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

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It had been a year since Mayweather had been under the kleig lights and it took him a couple of stanzas to shake off the ring rust.

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The poem, written on Army notepaper in blue crayon, consists of four 10-line stanzas, each ending with the name of a distant outpost of the British empire.

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Robert L. Mack, Gray's definitive biographer, has observed that a recent edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations draws from 15 stanzas and reproduces 13 of them whole.

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On asking which one, Mr Stewart was told the subject was very obscure - the name was then named, and our hero promptly quoted a couple of stanzas.

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The first seven stanzas were fought at a ferocious pace.

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In the United States record collectors said that her songs, with their four-line stanzas, were like the blues, and she did indeed make some recordings with a jazz saxophonist, Don Byas.

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In the film Shabnam, there was the first multi-lingual film song with stanzas in Bengali, Marathi and Tamil, telling the audience that they were all part of India while poking gentle fun at the stereotypes it created.

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