10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PENTASTICH»
Discover the use of
pentastich in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
pentastich and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Mother's Advice to Her Daughter: And The Wild Daughter's ...
And The Wild Daughter's Undutiful Reply; Two Humorous Turkish Poems, in the
Harem Dialect of Women, and in Pentastich Strophes, with Recurrent Chorus.
ADVICE TO HER DAUGHTER AND THE WILD DAUGHTER'S UNDUTIFUL
REPLY.
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Dictionary of Poetic Terms
Other stanza forms include the Couplet, Distich, Monostich, Quatrain, QUINTAIN,
OCTASTICH, OCTAVE, PENTASTICH, SEPTET, and SESTET. tripody /trip'-/ (from
Greek for "three-foot") a Greek Quantitative Meter unit composed of three feet.
Jack Elliott Myers, Don C. Wukasch,
2003
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The Reformed Quarterly Review
This strophe is composed of a nonastich and a pentastich. The nonastich is
subdivided into a pentastich and tetrastich. In the first line the Masoretic text has
omitted the article with onx. We restore it in accordance with the usage of this
poem.
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A Commonplace Book of Pentastichs
But for Laughlin the pentastich is not a stanza, it is a complete poem. Our
commonest pentastich, in this sense, is undoubtedly the limerick, but five- line
epigrams can be found from Empedocles to J. V. Cunningham. The Japanese
tanka, a ...
James Laughlin, Hayden Carruth,
1998
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American Journal of Philology
'abd; nor is the second pentastich (vv. 76-79) a Christian addition to an original
Jewish Messianic song.50 PAUL HAUPT. "The Zionists might call President
Wilson a horn of deliverance. "Not the Romans, as J. Weiss (cf. above, p. 65)
thinks ...
Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Charles William Emil Miller, Tenney Frank,
1919
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Now I Know Only So Far: Essays in Ethnopoetics
< [b] Gifting 54-55 [c] Placing (C = pentastich) 56-57 iv A Upriver "Now again,"
travel 58-59 B a "If I were not" "Now again," turn 60-64 b "Who?" turn 65-66 c "
Fa's sibling" turn 67 C a Ashore turn 68-69 [b] Gifting 70-71 c] Placing (C =
pentastich) ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
pentastich. (pentăstik). A *stanza orpoem offive lines, moreoften known as a *
quintain, quintet, or*cinquain. Examples includethe *limerick, the Spanish *lira
and*quintilla, andthe Japanese*tanka.
Pentastich — Continued. The first and last lines are in synonymous parallel- One
of the choicest specimens of the pentastich ism. They enclose a triplet of
synonymous lines is in Luke vi. 20, 23. Two antithetical strophes giving the
reason on ...
James Hastings, Ann Wilson Hastings, Edward Hastings,
1897
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Journal of Biblical Literature
... Radan and Turnat (DB 3, 11b). It is important to bear in mind that Qir in the two
passages in the Book of Amos is preceded by m; in the genuine Amosian
pentastich at the beginning of the Book (Am. 1:5) Qira is preceded by ' am-Ardm,
and in ...
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Studies in Biblical parallelism: Parallelism in Amos. ...
The other possibly doubtful point occurs in the final stanza, 29a-e, which yields a
pentastich as I have divided it. There is no reason why Isaiah should not have
used a closing pentastich — particularly if the opening stanza be regarded as ...
Louis Israel Newman, William Popper,
1918