Each length of stanza suits a poetic tone and genre.

Ashton's is a totally classical version, dependent upon the academic idiom and true to Shakespeare's poetic tone.

His landscapes were well received by Italian art critics, and praised for their chromatic contrasts and poetic tones.

Keats's creation established a new poetic tone that accorded with his aesthetic ideas about poetry.

Yoshino, writing in a poetic tone, shares personal anecdotes to help frame the larger, societal issues he covers later in the book.

He immediately loved the book's dialogue and poetic tone and showed it to producer Pierre Braunberger, who bought the rights.

But the inflated poetic tone of the words actually captures the comic implausibility of the moment: whom is she kidding, you ask?

His accent is of Gloucester, with its squelched vowels and lilting, almost poetic tones.

Sebastian tells us his story directly from some vague point in the future, speaking in the alternately casual and poetic tones of the perpetual adolescent.

I took a risk: to capture the poetic tone of the novel I tried not to capture it.