-
metre in
classical French poetry is the alexandrine,
composed of two
hemistiches of six
syllables each. Two
famous alexandrines are La
fille de Minos...
- up of two half-lines (in old-fashioned scholarship,
these are
called hemistiches)
divided by a breath-pause or caesura.
There must be at
least one of...
- of
usually 14
through 16 syllables, each with a
caesura between the
hemistiches. The
rhyme is ****onant.
Since 1913, and
following the work of Ramón Menéndez...
-
Irregular verses,
mainly between 14 and 16 syllables,
divided in two
hemistiches and with ****onant rhyme, as
opposed to
regular verses and
consonant rhyme...
- for
court do****ents,
nastaliq was
developed for
Persian poetry, "whose
hemistiches encourage the pile-up of
letters against the
intercolumnar ruling. Only...
- calligraphy:
Chalipa and Siah Mashgh.
Chalipa consists of four
diagonal hemistiches of a poem,
which has
clearly a moral,
ethic and
poetic theme. "چلیپا"...
- in fourteen, but
rather six lines,
including four rows, each with two
hemistiches and two 'tercets' each in a line
extending over two rows." In Ladha's...
-
seven basic syllables in each line,
divided into
three and four
syllable hemistiches. When
combined with the
musical beat, this
produces a
natural rhythm...
- also used for the 'pie de arte mayor',
which is a
verse composed of two
hemistiches, each of
which has a
rhythmic accent at the
beginning and the end, separated...
-
dedicated to
Saint Chayna. It
contains 21
couplets and each
verse has 2
hemistiches, of 10
syllables each. It is
unknown if the
author of the poem is ibn...
