The hexasyllable or hexasyllabic verse is a line of verse with six syllables. The orphan hexasyllable is a metric specificity of certain French epic poems...
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line of John Keats's Endymion: "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever". Hexasyllable Octosyllable Decasyllable Dodecasyllable Halporn, James W.; Ostwald,...
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stress tetrameter verse used in narration (as in Chaucer). meter (poetry) hexasyllable – 6 syllable line decasyllable – 10 syllable line hendecasyllable – 11...
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with 6 or 7 syllables. The endecha is essentially a musical form; a hexasyllable. The verb endechar - to lament, to sing endechas, is rarely encountered...
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pitches. Each melodic unit corresponds to a fragment of the Mamelian hexasyllable, in accordance with the classical bipartite scheme ("Fratelli / d'Italia...
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is generally called the "alexandrine", after the French equivalent. hexasyllable, octosyllable, decasyllable, and hendecasyllable — lines of 6, 8, 10...
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Subject(s) Life of William of Gellone Genre(s) Chanson de geste Form Laisse Meter Decasyllable with some hexasyllable lines Media type Manuscript Lines 3,553...
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University of Chicago Press, 2008 ISBN 0-226-30482-5 Meter (poetry) Hexasyllable, the six-syllable line Octosyllable, the eight-syllable line Hendecasyllable...
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long-short-short-long (i.e., a trochee/choree alternating with an iamb) Hexasyllable: metrical line consisting of 6 syllables. Double dactyl Octosyllable:...
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it consists of stanzas of five lines (two dodecasyllables and three hexasyllables) with the last line always ending in the refrain (estribillo) "Iherusalem"...
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