单词 | long and short verse |
释义 | > as lemmaslong and short verse ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [adjective] > relating to or consisting of lines > other types of line long and short1715 acephalous1746 asynartetic1847 pericopic1913 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [adjective] > elegiac metre elegiacal1542 elegiac1586 long and short1715 1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ 32 At the same time was an Epitaph made on him..by Sir Thomas Chaloner in long and short Verses. 1762 St. James's Mag. Dec. 287 Many a putter together of long and short verse in Latin. 1811 R. Chandler Life of William Waynflete ii. 23 (note) Two pages and a half folio, in long and short verse. 1884 F. A. Hoffmann Compend. to Poetry 732 (note) Elegion, the form of versification in which such strains were first composed by the Greeks, that is the combination of a hexameter and a pentameter (commonly called long and short) verse. 1923 J. W. Mackail in C. Bailey Legacy of Rome 343 The so-called elegiac or ‘long and short’ metre. < as lemmas |
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