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classical stanza known as the seguidilla, i.e. seven lines of alternating heptasyllabic and pentasyllabic verses. Lyrics vary widely from performer to performer...

Some of these compositions are in verse, often mimicking Ephrem's heptasyllabic couplets. There is a very large number of works by "Ephrem" extant in...

included with Zhang's preface. This set constitutes some of the earliest heptasyllabic shi Chinese poetry written. While still in Luoyang, Zhang became inspired...

to two Proto-Indo-European octosyllables: one giving the Saturnian's heptasyllabic half-line by acephaly (truncation of line-beginning), the other yielding...

examples are provided. Two examples of the form of Shi in Tang dynasty in heptasyllabic (with seven characters) and pentasyllabic (with five characters) style:...

national anthem is made up of an Alexandrine chorus and eleven stanzas in heptasyllabic [es] octavillas [es]; but throughout its execution, only the chorus...

wrote "Lyric Poems on Four Sorrows" (四愁詩), which represent the earliest heptasyllabic shi poems in Chinese literature. The government's Music Bureau also...

main lines being octosyllabic (eight syllables long) and the B-lines heptasyllabic (seven syllables). Tail rhyme was taken up by poets composing in Old...

Bocheon'ga) is an early Chinese star catalogue in the form of poem in heptasyllabic verse, enumerating the names of stars. The poem exists in several revision...

Cambrensis. Simund's major works were two long poems in Norman French, in heptasyllabic verse, each identified by acrostics: De la Fortune, an adaptation of...

lengths. The core of the Wuzhen pian comprises 81 poems: 16 heptasyllabic lüshi, 64 heptasyllabic jueju quatrains, and one pentasyllabic verse on the Taiyi...

1954 and 1955, the play is divided into 18 sections and written in heptasyllabic meter, recalling the cordel, a form the popular poetry of northeastern...

fifteen lines. He typically uses octosyllables mixed with hexa- or heptasyllabic lines. His melodies are in the authentic G mode with strong tonal centres...

1265 and dead by February 1273. Cuvelier's chansons are predominantly heptasyllabic, although one (Pour la meillour) is decasyllabic and there are pentasyllabic...

which had been the dominant metre since the second century C.E., but heptasyllabic lines began to grow in popularity from the eighth century. The poems...

octosyllabic, with the heptasyllabic exceptions of Quant ivers a tel poissance and Quant li rossignols and the mixed octo- and heptasyllabic verses of the disputed...

court, Song Zhiwen is known for his regulated verse, lüshi, including heptasyllabic songs. His early works focus on court life and imperially assigned poems...

Gyunyeo's biography that "their poetry is written in Chinese in penta- and heptasyllabic lines, [while] our songs are written in the vernacular in three gu and...

completely covered by Bickell's. The metre of all the published homilies is heptasyllabic. The fullest list, by Gustav Bickell, contains 191 which are extant...

Syriac. He also wrote a Little Grammar, an epitome of his larger work in heptasyllabic verse for young students. The Great Grammar follows the traditional...