leonine verse
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leonine verse, a kind of Latin verse much used in the Middle Ages, consisting of hexameters, or alternate hexameters and pentameters, in which the last word rhymes with that preceding the caesura; for instance:His replicans clare tres causas explico quare
More Leonino dicere metra sino.
The term is applied to English verse of which the middle and last syllables rhyme.
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Bellow, Saul
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
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Saul Bellow
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
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Bellow, Saul 1915-
Book article from: American Decades
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Bloom, Allan 1930-1993
Book article from: American Decades
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