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Brewer's: Macaronic Verse
Verses in which foreign words are ludicrously distorted and jumbled together, as in Porson's lines on the threatened invasion of England by Napoleon. (Lingo drawn for the Militia.) So…Brewer's: Pindaric Verse
Irregular verse; a poem of various metres, but of lofty style, in imitation of the odes of Pindar. Alexander's Feast, by Dryden, is the best specimen in English. Source: Dictionary of…Brewer's: Serpentine Verses
Such as end with the same word as they begin with. The following are examples: “Crescit amor nummi, quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.” (Greater grows the love of pelf, as pelf itself, grows…Brewer's: Sibylline Verses
When the Sibylline books were destroyed (see above), all the floating verses of the several Sibyls were carefully collected and deposited in the new temple of Jupiter. Augustus had some 2,…Brewer's: Alcaic Verse
Alcaïcs. A Greek and Latin metre, so called from Alcoes, a lyric poet, who invented it. Each line is divided into two parts. The first two lines of each stanza of the ninth ode of Horace…Brewer's: Blank Verse
English verse without rhyme. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894BlanketBlank Practice A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y…Brewer's: Parian Verse
Ill-natured satire; so called from Archilochos, a native of Paros. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894PariasParian Chronicle A B C D E F G H I J K L…Brewer's: Leonine Verses
properly speaking, are either hexameter verses, or alternate hexameter and pentameter verses, rhyming at the middle and end of each respective line. These fancies were common in the 12th…Brewer's: Golden Verses
So called because they are “good as gold.” They are by some attributed to Epicarmos, and by others to Empedocles, but always go under the name of Pythagoras, and seem quite in accordance…Brewer's: Fescennine Verses
Lampoons, so called from Fescennia in Tuscany, where performers at merry-makings used to extemporise scurrilous jests of a personal nature to amuse the audience. Source: Dictionary of…Trending
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