单词 | leonine rhyme |
释义 | > as lemmasleonine rhyme 2. leonine verse: a kind of Latin verse much used in the Middle Ages, consisting of hexameters or alternate hexameters and pentameters, in which the final word rhymes with that immediately preceding the cæsural pause. So leonine poet, leonine rhyme.[Probably named from some medieval poet called Leo (or Leonius) who made use of this kind of versification: for conjectures as to his identity see Du Cange.] ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > [noun] > leonine verse leonine versea1657 leonine1846 a1657 W. Burton Comm. Antoninus his Itinerary (1658) 61 These rimedoggrill verses, not Leonine, as I think they are usually called. a1771 T. Gray Observ. Pseudo-Rhythmus in Wks. (1884) I. 375 If the date of this poem be true, the general opinion, that the Leonine verse owes its name to Leonius, seems to be false. a1832 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XXI. 385/1 Sir A. Croke has given examples from more than fifty Leonine poets from the IIId to the XVth centuries. 1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. i. 103 Those who attempted to write verse have lost all prosody, and relapse into Leonine rhymes. 1862 H. B. Wheatley Anagrams 15 Leonine verses were invented, according to Camden, in the reign of Charlemagne. < as lemmas |
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