10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HEXASTICH»
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hexastich in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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An anaphoric constant fastens together all the lines of each hexastich; in the
string 6-11 every line begins with the negation ne attached to an infinitive, and in
the string 15-20 with the repetitive conjunction a succeeded by a nominative.60
The ...
Roman Jakobson, Krystyna Pomorska, Stephen Rudy, 1987
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Poetry of Grammar and Grammar of Poetry
lelism of hemistichs is antonymic in contradistinction to the synonymic parallelism
of lines; in the hexastich of §II the correspondence between alternating lines is
synonymic while between adjacent lines it is antonymic. As to the parallelism of ...
3
The note book of an English opium-eater
DRYDEN'S HEXASTICH. It is a remarkable fact, that the very finest epigram in the
English language happens also to be the worst. Epigram I call it in the austere
Greek sense ; which thus far resembled our modern idea of an epigram, that ...
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De Quincey's Writings: The note book of an English ...
DRYDEN'S. HEXASTICH. It is a remarkable fact, that the very finest epigram in
the English language happens also to be the worst. Epigram I call it in the
austere Greek sense ; which thus far resembled our modern idea of an epigram,
that ...
Thomas De Quincey, James Thomas Fields, 1855
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John Nichols's The Progresses and Public Processions of ...
On his request, I supplied for the painting one of my hexastich poems––I gave
her this copy, and I set one aside for him. Hexastich .I. To the viewer 1. Do you
wish for an image ofa true monarch? Then behold our image: royal piety adorns it
; ...
Elizabeth Goldring, Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Elizabeth Clarke, 2013
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Selected Writings: Poetry of grammar and grammar of poetry
As to the parallelism of hemistichs in this hexastich, it is synonymic within the
even lines and antonymic within the odd lines.63 The organic parts of this
threefold parallel structure, with their increasing intensity and the image of the
tavern as ...
Roman Jakobson, Stephen Rudy, 1981
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The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry Before 1600
The second is also a SONNET , while the third is a hexastich (poem consisting of
six verses or lines). Editors today sometimes print the poems as separate entries
but more often treat them as a series. “A Sonnet on Ticho Brahe” traces the ...
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Practical Orthography, Or, The Art of Teaching Spelling by ...
[br. hexastich, h.x hexastich, b. x o.x pentasticic, h.x monostich,* py.x wr- actoress
artoe, m.= adulteress, j. c. advowtry, b.- adwutrie, b. avowtry, b. advowsen, b.= br.
= advowson, j. e. adze, b. m. addice, b. m. j. affraid, b. % aghast, b.= c agazed ...
William Bearcroft, Daniel Henry Barnes, 1828
9
Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works
Upon the outmost front of the building was placed the entire arms of the kingdom
with the Garter, crown and supporters, cut forth as fair and great as the life, with
an hexastich written underneath, all expressing the dignity and power of him that
...
Thomas Middleton, Gary Taylor, John Lavagnino, 2010
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Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
The basic foot here is the iamb (q.v.). hexastich (Gk 'six lines') A stanza of six
lines. A very common stanza form. See sestet; sestina; sexain; sonnet. hiatus
Either a gap in a sentence so that the sense is not completed, or a break between
two ...
