"verse" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- At Eton he learnt the whole of Homer by heart, and wrote Greek verse with facility.
- "I used to compose Greek verses off the top of my head."
- This makes for great clarity, but for many listeners it may obscure the knotted imagery and tortured struggle with ideas that mark the Greek verse.
- Philo interprets the Greek verse 12 as an allegory for Cain's fear of being soulless.
- This forms an exception to the principle, otherwise observed in Greek verse, that two successive unmarked elements are not permitted.
- Yet he had to spend hours of his time learning Greek iambic verse as a punishment for being rude to a master in a political debate.
- He is deeply interested in ancient Greek verse and its fragmentary character.
- A Greek verse says that even the gods cannot change the past.
- A tribrach is a metrical foot used in formal poetry and Greek and Latin verse.
- The composition of Latin and Greek verse was set as the acme of educational achievement.
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