tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-79889654523040714342008-04-29T09:40:00.000-07:002008-05-07T21:17:25.669-07:00<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">LEONINE</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">, adj. </span>Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at the end, as in this famous passage from Bella Peeler Silcox:<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"></span></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">The electric light invades the dunnest deep of Hades.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Cries Pluto, 'twixt his snores: "O tempora! O mores!"</span></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It should be explained that Mrs. Silcox does not undertake to teach pronunciation of the Greek and Latin tongues. Leonine verses are so called in honor of a poet named Leo, whom prosodists appear to find a pleasure in believing to have been the first to discover that a rhyming couplet could be run into a single line.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">2008 Update:  </span>Mewling in office.</div>Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04753071669562594194noreply@blogger.com