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libre. In English verse, "alexandrine" is typically used to mean "iambic hexameter": × / × / × / ¦ × / × / × / (×) /=ictus, a strong syllabic position; ×=nonictusAnapaest (642 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
An anapaest (/ˈænəpiːst, -pɛst/; also spelled anapæst or anapest, also called antidactylus) is a metrical foot used in formal poetry. In classical quantitativeNike of Callimachus (651 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Ἀθεναίον τὸν ἀγο̑να (Hexameter 3) τὸν Μα[ραθο̑νι πρὸ H]ελένον, ο[. . .] (Hexameter 4) παισὶν Ἀθεναίον μν[εμα . . .] (Hexameter 5) [Kallimachos the pole]marchStichometry (2,311 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
This standard line (Normalzeile, in German) was thus as long as an epic hexameter and contained about 15 syllables or 35 Greek letters. Stichometry existedEpode (531 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Archilochus and Hipponax in which the first line consists of a dactylic hexameter or an iambic trimeter. (See Archilochian.) It can also be used (as inPosthomerica (1,887 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
lit. "Things After Homer")[citation needed] is an epic poem in Greek hexameter verse by Quintus of Smyrna. Probably written in the 3rd century AD, itDramatistic pentad (1,681 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
1945 book A Grammar of Motives. Burke based his pentad on the scholastic hexameter which defines "questions to be answered in the treatment of a topic: WhoCzech alexandrine (887 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
reflect the rhythms of iambic hexameter, dactylic tetrameter, and combinations thereof. Compared with iambic hexameter and dactylic tetrameter, the CzechCaesura (1,448 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
of Troy...) This line uses caesura in the medial position. In dactylic hexameter, a caesura occurs any time the ending of a word does not coincide withAdonic (122 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
ends with a spondee (i.e. --) or " -uu -u " if a trochee is intended. Hexameter lines often end in an adonic. Halporn, J.W. (2012). "Adonic". In GreeneSticheron (3,869 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
as stichoi (sing: stichos), but sticheraric poetry usually follows the hexameter and is collected in a book called sticherarion (Greek: στιχηράριον). AMusaeus Grammaticus (218 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
and has been identified with the friend of Procopius whose poem (340 hexameter lines) on the story of Hero and Leander is considered the most beautifulOn the Morning of Christ's Nativity (913 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
a rhyming couplet. The final line of each stanza is written in iambic hexameter. For example, see the first stanza: This is the month, and this the happyWilhelm Meyer (philologist) (182 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
his birthplace Speyer. Meyer wrote about the history of Greek and Latin hexameter poetry, famously suggesting the three Meyer rules for Hellenistic poetryEdison (poem) (368 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
which is an elegy. Both poems are written in the same measure, trochaic hexameter. Nezval uses long enumerations, building sophisticated poetical imageryAntonio Mancinelli (114 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
authors. His Carmen de Figuris rendered parts of Quintilian's rhetoric in hexameter. By 1473, he had opened a humanistic school in Velletri. He died in RomeAppendix Vergiliana (3,744 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Republican neoterics than Virgil. This is a pastoral epyllion in 414 hexameters which evokes the world of Theocritus and employs epic conventions forPanyassis (296 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
famous works are: the Heracleia about the hero Heracles, written in epic hexameter, and the Ionica about the histories of the Ionian cities of Asia MinorIdyll VI (1,130 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
otherwise known as Bucolic poem 6, was written by Theocritus in dactylic hexameter. The exact date of its composition is unknown. It references charactersAndros (city) (495 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
discovered there, were inscriptions, including an interesting hymn to Isis in hexameter verse. The town and its territory were celebrated for its wine in antiquityCharles Graux (classicist) (551 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
words. This standard unit, he showed, was equal in length to a Greek hexameter (about fifteen syllables or 35 letters). Graux’s survey of hundreds ofThe Wanderings of Oisin (719 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
four (iambic tetrameter), five (iambic pentameter), and six (anapaestic hexameter) metrical feet respectively. The three "books" begin thus: Book I: YouAntimachus of Heliopolis (145 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
(Κοσμοποιΐα), that is, on the creation of the universe, consisting of 3780 hexameter verses. Aside from one quotation, the poem is lost to us. The ByzantineIdyll XI (1,400 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
otherwise known as Bucolic poem 11, was written by Theocritus in dactylic hexameter. Its main character, the Cyclops Polyphemus, has appeared in other worksWigbod (435 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the Fathers quoted. The commentary is preceded by three Latin poems in hexameter. In the first Wigbold felicitates his book, because it is to be takenPoetry of Sappho (3,600 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
= 214 Voigt Fragments 142 and 143 can be analysed either as dactylic hexameters, or according to Aeolic principles. 168A Voigt = 178 LP Not included inVedic metre (1,832 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Students, p. 438. Kiparsky, P. (2018). "Indo-European origins of the Greek hexameter". In Hackstein, O., & Gunkel, D. (2018). Language and Meter (pp. 77–128)1517 in poetry (348 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
dialects in hexameter verse; many subsequent editions Johannes de Hauvilla, Architrenius, written in 1184, a widely read Latin poem in 4,361 hexameters in nine1517 in poetry (348 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
dialects in hexameter verse; many subsequent editions Johannes de Hauvilla, Architrenius, written in 1184, a widely read Latin poem in 4,361 hexameters in nineThe Highwayman (poem) (735 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
genuinely excited by that kind of romantic story." "The Highwayman" uses hexameter that mixes iambs and anapaests. Noyes frequently uses alliteration, suchApollonius of Rhodes (3,623 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
even in Argonautica, which is sometimes termed an "episodic epic"). Five hexameter verses attributed to Apollonius may be a fragment of this poem but theyEpigram (2,010 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the genre, aligning it with the indigenous Roman tradition of "satura", hexameter satire, as practised by (among others) his contemporary Juvenal. GreekList song (6,165 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
early classical antiquity, where it played an important part of early hexameter poetry for oral bards like Homer and Hesiod. In classical opera, the listWilliam Benjamin Smith (713 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
published in 1944 was the first English translation in the original dactylic hexameter. Books Elementary Co-Ordinate Geometry for Collegiate Use and PrivateThe Crimean Sonnets (450 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
syllable line of the Polish originals by using the twelve syllable English hexameter line. Stepy akermańskie ("The Ackerman Steppe") Cisza morska ("The CalmDisce aut discede (350 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
painting at Winchester College contains an expanded version in the form of a hexameter: "Aut disce, aut discēde; manet sors tertia, caedī" ("Either learn orList of long poems in English (96 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Clough, Arthur Hugh The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich 1848 1,870 c. 1,870 hexameter Cowper, William The Task 1785 blank verse Crane, Hart The Bridge 1930Oral-formulaic theory in Anglo-Saxon poetry (1,215 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
metrical pattern that fits, in modular fashion, into the six-colon Greek hexameter, and aid the aioidos or bard in extempore composition. Moreover, phrasesChristian interpretations of Virgil's Eclogue 4 (2,755 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
than divine prophecy. The scholarly consensus is that Virgil began the hexameter Eclogues (or Bucolics) in 42 BC and it is thought that the collectionRudolf Thurneysen (512 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
zum späteren römischen Volksverse. Halle 1885. Der Weg vom dactylischen Hexameter zum epischen Zehnsilber der Franzosen. 1887. Das Verbum être und die französischeTo a Skylark (1,283 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
first four lines are metered in trochaic trimeter, the fifth in iambic hexameter, also called Alexandrine. The rhyme scheme of each stanza is ABABB. ThereCleobulus (564 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
daughter, Cleobulina, who found fame as a poet, composing riddles in hexameter verse. Cleobulus is said to have lived to the age of seventy, and to haveAfter Ovid: New Metamorphoses (144 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Press. p. 2. ISBN 0-19-726323-2. Shapiro, James (1997-12-14). "Sex and Violence in Latin Hexameter". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-02-13. v t eRhyme royal (1,794 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
varies from iambic pentameter in its final line, which is a line of iambic hexameter, or in other words an English alexandrine. In the seventeenth centuryTrishtubh (Vedic metre) (787 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
pp. 459-469.) Kiparsky, P. (2018). "Indo-European origins of the Greek hexameter". In Hackstein, O., & Gunkel, D. (2018). Language and Meter (pp. 77–128)Lethe (2,028 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
one of his poems. In 29 BCE, Virgil wrote about Lethe in his didactic hexameter poem, the Georgics. Lethe is also referenced in Virgil's epic Latin poemTimocreon (1,665 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
among the "metrical curiosities" of the Palatine Anthology (its form is a hexameter followed by a trochaic tetrameter) and it might be Timocreon's reply toTimon of Phlius (1,220 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
and dead; an unbounded field for scepticism and satire. They were in hexameter verse, and, from the way in which they are mentioned by the ancient writersPietro Carrera (471 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Prince's wife, Lady Giovanna, he composed a short poem for her in Latin in hexameter form regarding chess. Only fragments of this poem, the title being "TheLatin literature (2,596 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
from the founding of Rome to his own time. He adopted the Greek dactylic hexameter, which became the standard verse form for Roman epics. He became wellHrotsvitha (3,934 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
honor of Abbess Gerberga. It contains eight legends written in dactylic hexameter. Her most popular work was The Book of Drama, or Liber Secundus, whichHrotsvitha (3,934 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
honor of Abbess Gerberga. It contains eight legends written in dactylic hexameter. Her most popular work was The Book of Drama, or Liber Secundus, whichRobert Bridges (1,737 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Somerville College Library Ibant Obscuri: An Experiment in the Classical Hexameter (1916), with reprint of summary of Stone's Prosody, accompanied by 'laterElectra (Pleiad) (3,703 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Pleiades are first attested in a scholion on Pindar, which quotes three hexameter lines from an unattributed poem, probably from the Hesiodic corpus: lovelyGaia (6,015 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
one of the nymphs of the mountain. There is extant among the Greeks an hexameter poem, the name of which is Eumolpia, and it is assigned to Musaeus, sonAegimius (poem) (799 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
a "cool shady place" (ψυκτήριον, psyktērion) found in a context-less hexameter quoted by Athenaeus (Deipnosophistae 11.109.503c–d = fr. 301): The smallGeoffrey of Monmouth (2,429 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
an unspecified language. The third work attributed to Geoffrey is the hexameter poem Vita Merlini (Life of Merlin), based more closely on traditionalTales from Ovid (317 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
by les Arts Florissants". James S. Shapiro (14 December 1997). "Sex and Violence in Latin Hexameter". New York Times. Retrieved 4 August 2013. v t eAhuvia Kahane (1,348 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
was made a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin in 2020. The Gods in Greek Hexameter Poetry and Beyond (edited with J. Clauss and M. Cuypers) (2016) Stuttgart:Tribrach (poetry) (883 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
tribrach is never found in the works of Virgil, Ovid, or Catullus, since the hexameter and hendecasyllable metres do not allow a series of more than two syllablesList of Greek and Latin roots in English/H (291 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
hexad, hexadic, hexagon, hexagram, hexahedron, hexamer, hexamerous, hexameter, hexapod, hexastyle, hexasyllabic, Hexateuch, hexatonic, hexode, tetrahemihexahedronPalindrome (4,980 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
is sometimes possible to make a sotadean line by reversing a dactylic hexameter. A 1st-century Latin palindrome was found as a graffito at Pompeii. ThisGaisford Prize (4,785 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
L. D. Cole (Balliol) for hexameters: Virgil's Aeneid 2.162-249. 1897: W. F. Nicholson (Balliol) for Theocritean hexameters: Thomson's Castle of IndolenceMills of God (1,205 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
make wickedness fearless." Plutarch no doubt here makes reference to a hexameter by an unknown poet, cited by sceptic philosopher Sextus Empiricus (2ndEdmund Spenser (3,832 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
stanza's main metre is iambic pentameter with a final line in iambic hexameter (having six feet or stresses, known as an Alexandrine), and the rhymeTitus Calpurnius Siculus (894 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Lit. 306,6). Mention may here be made of the fragments of two short hexameter poems known as the Einsiedeln Eclogues, which share similarities withStephen Dobyns (929 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
ISBN 0-670-81059-2 Saratoga Bestiary (1988) ISBN 0-670-82024-5 Saratoga Hexameter (1990) Saratoga Haunting (1993) Saratoga Backtalk (1994) ISBN 0-393-03659-6Titus Calpurnius Siculus (894 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Lit. 306,6). Mention may here be made of the fragments of two short hexameter poems known as the Einsiedeln Eclogues, which share similarities withJonas of Bobbio (778 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Ecclesiastical History, while Flodoard turned that of Columbanus into hexameter verse. The "Life of St. Fara" is chiefly an account of miraculous eventsPedro Jaime Esteve (261 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
by the ancient Greek doctor Nicander of Colophon. He made his Latin hexameter version available with Latin and Catalan nomenclature and taxonomy ofFrithegod (1,472 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
is generally known for his Latin poem Breviloquium Vitae Wilfridi, a hexameter work based on Stephen of Ripon's prose Life of St Wilfrid. The subjectLiber epigrammatum (736 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
abbatum 20 Unlocated lines from the 'Urbana Sylloge' A single unattributed hexameter which could, like some other texts in the manuscript, belong to Bede UrbanaLovato Lovati (4,328 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Paduan lawyer and friend of Lovato), and another poem written in dactylic hexameter. One year later in 1268, Lovato married Jacopina de Vicenzo da SolesinaYopie Prins (559 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Press, 2007). Metrical Translation: Nineteenth-Century Homers and the Hexameter Mania. In Nation, Language and the Ethics of Translation, ed. Sandra BermannRichard Stanyhurst (783 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
called hexameters. Thomas Nashe in his preface to Greene's Menaphon ridiculed this performance as his heroicall poetrie, infired ... with an hexameter furieMaryann Corbett (628 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
10/30/2008 "Sacred Harp Convention", Poetry Porch "A Meditation on Dactylic Hexameter", The Barefoot Muse [1]The O in the Air, Franciscan University Press (JulyJohn the Old Saxon (690 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
poems are very likely by John the Old Saxon. The first is an eight-line hexameter poem, probably copied in English script during the 930s into a manuscriptQueen of Sheba (7,104 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Altarpiece, 1181; column #4/17, row #3/3. NB the accompanying subject and hexameter verse: "Regina Saba." "Vulnere dignare regina fidem Salemonis." The WarburgIvan Gundulić (2,280 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
descendant, Baron Vlaho Getaldić (grandson of Katarina Gundulić) introduced a hexameter treaty into Osman in 1865. Osman was not published in the integral editionMartin Schanz (966 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
counted the lines in prose compositions. Each line was equal to a Greek hexameter (about 15 syllables or 35 letters). While studying the famous Clarke CodexSt. George and the Dragon (ballad) (527 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
lines are often in iambs, some follow iambic pentameter, others iambic hexameter, and still others break from an iambic rhythm entirely. At the end ofShakespeare's sonnets (7,072 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye…"), and the lord Berowne does, too—a hexameter sonnet ("If love make me forsworn, how shall I swear to love?")–a formThe Revolt of Islam (3,075 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
in iambic pentameter followed by a single Alexandrine line in iambic hexameter. The rhyme pattern is "ababbcbcc". It was written in the spring and summer1919 Nobel Prize in Literature (675 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
olympische Frühling ("Olympian Spring"), an allegory written in iambic hexameter, mixing fantastic, naturalistic, religious and mythological themes thatChristian Latin literature (709 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
which was begun in Mexico and finished in Italy. It is written in Latin hexameter, in a strong style. It is divided into two parts, a Summa theologica andHistory of linguistics (5,334 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Classical meter as defined by the Alexandrian grammarians was the dactylic hexameter, the meter of Homeric poetry. This form uses verses of six feet. The firstLawrence Richardson Jr. (580 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
in republican Rome; an analytical discussion of the shorter narrative hexameter poems written in Latin during the first century before Christ. UndergraduateLithuanian language (9,765 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Panegyric to Sigismund III Vasa, visiting capital Vilnius, first hexameter in Lithuanian language, 1589.James J. Clauss (238 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
of Rhodes) and selected aspects of Roman literature. The Gods of Greek Hexameter Poetry. From the Archaic Age to Late Antiquity and Beyond. Franz SteinerList of Greek and Latin roots in English/M (255 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
barometric, bathometer, diameter, diametric, dysmetria, graphometer, hexameter, hygrometer, hygrometry, isodiametric, isometric, isoperimetric, meterTeofilo Folengo (762 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Cingar, a trickster. Baldo blended Latin with various Italian dialects in hexameter verse.[citation needed] Though frequently censured, it soon attained aJohn Josselyn (541 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
to genius, as when he tells us that the Indians disputed "in perfect hexameter verse". 1671: New England's Rarities, discovered in Birds, Beasts, FishesOdes (Horace) (10,875 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
among scholars as to the names of the archilochian ones. (a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic tetrameter) Book 1: 7, 28 – ᴗ ᴗ – ᴗ ᴗ – / ᴗ ᴗ –James Harrington (1664–1693) (650 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
(Musæ Anglicanæ, ii. 37). Harrington was the author of a poem in Latin hexameter verse on the death of Charles II, which displays considerable commandRobert Burn (classicist) (541 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Cambridge, in 1849. Burn had remarkable skill in the writing of Latin hexameter verse. He was senior classic in 1852, and took a second class in naturalRebecca (novel) (5,730 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
the book "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again." is an iambic hexameter. The last line of the book "And the ashes blew towards us with the saltWelsh mythology (8,097 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Oxford. The work, Geoffrey's only known poem, was written in Latin verse (hexameter). Each of these tales are contained within the modern Mabinogion collectionWalter Miller (philologist) (1,771 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Iliad in the English equivalent of the Greek poet's original dactylic hexameter. It was the first such work ever published. Begun by Tulane colleagueIsidor Hilberg (261 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Vienna, 1877. "Das Gesetz der trochäischen Wortformen im Dactylischen, Hexameter und Pentameter der Griechen vom 7. Jahrh. v. Chr. bis zum Untergang derThe Faerie Queene (8,517 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
five footed, that is, pentameters, and the ninth six footed, that is, a hexameter, or Alexandrine – which form "interlocking quatrains and a final couplet"Roman Republic (20,452 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Ennius was the first Roman poet to write an epic in an adapted Latin hexameter. However, only fragments of Ennius' epic, the Annales, have survived,Liuthar Gospels (1,269 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
capitals on a purple background is a dedicatory inscription in Leonine Hexameter, reading: "Emperor Otto, may God clothe your heart with this book. RememberMarco Publio Fontana (415 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
epicedia, and the like). Besides Horatian lyrics, hendecasyllabics, and a hexameter poem on the birth of Christ, there is also the Pastoralia carmina — sixOral tradition (10,880 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
a modular fashion into the poetic form (in this case six-colon Greek hexameter). Since the development of this theory, of oral-formulaic compositionDiego José Abad (510 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
was begun in Querétaro and finished in Italy. It is written in Latin hexameter, in a strong style. It is divided into two parts, a Suma theologica andOvid Napa Valley (948 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
as "dark, powerful and vertical in its sense of structure". Ovid 2015 Hexameter Red Wine is a blend of 65% Cabernet Franc, 21% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10%Priapeia (2,666 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
other metres too, such as the iambic (84 and 87), aeolic (85, 89) or hexameter (95) metres used in the "extra" poems in Smithers and Burton's editionS. E. Winbolt (217 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Date Notes English Poetry for the Young Blackie and Son 1904 The Latin Hexameter: Hints for Sixth Forms Blackie and Son 1906 The Virgil Pocket Book ArchibaldJovan Hadžić (1,533 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
about everything openly and engaged. His famous epic poem written in hexameter is The First Crossing of Black George from Serbia to Srem. KaradjordjePriapeia (2,666 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
other metres too, such as the iambic (84 and 87), aeolic (85, 89) or hexameter (95) metres used in the "extra" poems in Smithers and Burton's editionMarbodius of Rennes (1,874 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
style, writing in Latin and specific verse. He commonly wrote in Leonine hexameter. A poem written this way would consist of six metrical feet per line.The Stanton Press (504 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Jerome Vida (1921); Latin text by Marco Girolamo Vida facing English hexameter translation by R.S. Lambert. Introduction by R.C. Lambert. Wood-engravingsODY-C (1,485 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Soleil, burlesque, and fetish. Most of the comic is written in dactylic hexameter like the original, but two issues are written entirely in limerick. ODY-CEngland's Happiness in the Crowning of William and Mary (598 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
(sestets), making the total line count 60. Each line is composed in iambic hexameter, and the author uses rhyming couplets to tie these lines together. EnglishWolfgang Schadewaldt (966 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
versions of the two epics. Unlike Voss, Schadewaldt opted not to employ the hexameter in his versions. He translated the Odyssey (1957) in prose; his posthumouslyRoger Joseph Boscovich (6,504 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
religious and astronomical allusions. In his Marian devotion, he wrote hexameter verses on the Virgin Mary. In the same dome of St. Peter in Rome, whoseThomas Blenerhasset (1,309 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
and prosaically". They are in blank verse. The metre used is the iambic hexameter, and Blenerhasset is credited with the first explicit recognition of theHereford Mappa Mundi (4,357 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
20 – The Adriatic Sea; Italy with Rome, honoured by a popular Latin hexameter; Roma caput mundi tenet orbis frena rotundi ("Rome, the head of the worldPherecydes of Syros (6,354 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
one of the first Greek writers to compose his work in prose rather than hexameter verse. Martin Litchfield West notes that the subject matter that all ofList of University of Michigan arts alumni (6,226 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
scholar; first to translate the Iliad into English in the native dactylic hexameter Sara Moulton (BA 1974), author of Sara Moulton Cooks at Home, Sara's SecretsLiceo Classico Quinto Orazio Flacco (1,330 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the time of Augustus. His works were composed in elegant and serious hexameter verses and caustic iambic poetry. According to Quintilian, he was at timesThe Broken Amoretti (936 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
about the main protagonists through a cryptic poem written in dactylic hexameter, the ancient Homeric meter of the Greek mythologies. Incidentally, classicalLove Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink (963 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
lines, such as line eight where the line becomes catalectic trochaic hexameter. This line marks the shift from the poem's octave to its sestet, as wellGenerative literature (650 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Clark's mechanical Latin Verse Machine (1830-1843) produced lines of hexameter verse in Latin, and Christopher Strachey's love letter generator (1952)Samuel Ogden Andrew (948 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
this number is five." Accordingly, he chose an accentual, five-stress "hexameter", with, usually, hypermetric unstressed syllables at beginning or endAlliteration (Latin) (7,799 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Mulierum "Mother, best woman by far of the best of women!" In the following hexameter, the primary alliteration with T is supported by a secondary medial alliterationFormulary (model document) (3,470 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
king's name occurs twice in the curious formula xx, a dowry settlement in hexameter verse. Roman and Gothic law are followed either separately or togetherRoger Manwood (3,026 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the well-known Elizabethan playwright and poet, wrote a eulogy in Latin hexameter after Manwood's death, entitled 'On the Death of Sir Roger Manwood' (cfRuuben Kaalep (1,492 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
special prize at Otepää Parish Rhymed Chronicle awards for his poem "Hexameter of Päidla". His father was poet, playwright, literary critic and translatorSanta Maria del Parto a Mergellina (1,138 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
in 1497.[citation needed] In 1526, Sannazaro authored a poem in Latin hexameter titled De partus Virginis (Childbirth of the Virgin) that helped giveEleanor Winsor Leach (2,201 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
History of Art 36 (1992): 63–88. 'Horace's Sabine Property in Lyric and Hexameter Verse'. AJP 114 (1993): 271–302. 'Absence and Desire in Cicero's De Amicitia'Sapphic stanza in Polish poetry (2,377 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
SsSsSsSSsSs and one of SssSs. The SsSsSsSSsSs scheme is just a trochaic hexameter (SsSsSsSsSsSs) with the eighth syllable omitted. For comparison to Horace'sEnglish translations of Homer (3,633 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
DART, Joseph Henry (1 January 1865). "The Iliad of Homer, in English Hexameter Verse. By J. H. Dart. [Books I.-XXIV.]". Longman, Green and Company –Lygdamus (2,255 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
of the more obvious differences is that in Lygdamus the caesura of the hexameter is almost always a masculine caesura in the 3rd foot, whereas in TibullusTheodor Birt (2,002 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
(the stichos) of the ancients was a unit of spatial length equal to the hexameter. Theodor Birt has rightly erected his shrewd and persuasive The NatureSacramentary of Henry II (2,081 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
coronation image includes several inscriptions. These verses, apparently hexameters, run around the outside of the aureola: Further tituli ring the King himselfList of Greek and Latin roots in English/H–O (1,336 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
hexad, hexadic, hexagon, hexagram, hexahedron, hexamer, hexamerous, hexameter, hexapod, hexastyle, hexasyllabic, Hexateuch, hexatonic, hexode, tetrahemihexahedronUbertino Posculo (2,424 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
in Rome in 1455 and completed at some point close to 1460. This Latin hexameter epic poem in four books with 3,007 verses recounts the events leadingNeobyzantine Octoechos (19,444 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
taken from the book sticherarion (στιχηράριον), its text is composed in hexameter, today the Greek chant book is called Doxastarion ("the book of Doxasticha")History of Goslar (4,515 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
narrow, labyrinthine roads, [...] and cobblestones as bumpy as a Berlin hexameter. [...] the town of Goslar is a white-painted guardroom.".“ The town experiencedList of poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (580 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Story of the Mad Ox "An Ox, long fed with musty hay," 1798 1798, July 30 Hexameters. ('William my teacher,' &c.) "William, my teacher, my friend! dear WilliamList of women in the Heritage Floor (5,798 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Ancient times. Greece Sappho Ancient Greek poet. She wrote poetry in hexameter verse and was particularly skilled in writing riddles or enigmas. AristotleLatin tenses (27,200 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Because the feminine participle + fuisset makes a suitable ending for a hexameter, it is possible that in the following examples the double pluperfect isBellum Jugurthinum (5,846 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
political activities. The opening sentence of the fifth chapter is a hexameter: according to E. Skard (Ennius und Sallustius: eine sprachliche UntersuchungAugusta Treverorum (14,737 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
chronicle of Otto von Freising. In the 15th century, it was turned into the hexameter Ante Romam Treveris stetit annis mille trecentis, which was first inscribed