| 单词 | long verse |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslong verse long verse n. [compare classical Latin versus longus hexameter] Prosody †(a) hexameter (obsolete); (b) (in Old and Middle English and other Germanic alliterative verse) two half-lines considered as a unit; = long line n. 3. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > line > long line long verse1565 long line1810 1565 T. Stapleton tr. Bede Hist. Church Eng. v. xix. f. 174v [Aldethelme]..wrote also a notable booke of virginitie, bothe in longe verse [L. versibus exametris] and prose. 1662 T. Philpot Creples Complaint 10 Words of so many sillables, that some of them will make an Hexamiter or long verse. 1871 H. Sweet in W. C. Hazlitt Warton's Hist. Eng. Poetry II. 3 Each long verse has four accented syllables. 1996 Poetics Today 17 102 Hoover..holds that in Old English only alliterating syllables count as lifts, thus reducing the overall number of lifts in the long verse to two or three. < as lemmas |
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