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| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Horatian Metre | Literature | 1: And lo! from the dry sands men their keels are hauling; 2: See Alcaic, Asclepiadic, Choriambic, Sapphic, etc. (See also Hexameters, and Hexameters And Pentameters.) 3: Now that the winter is past, blithe spring to the balmy fields inviteth, 4: Nor deadly Frost spreads over meads her palling. E. C. B. 5: (An). Book i. Ode iv. In alternate lines, one of seventeen syllables and the other of eleven, thus: 6: Cattle no longer their stalls affect, nor the hind his hearth delighteth, 7: Below is a translation of the first four lines in this Horatian metre (rhyming):. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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