Note 194 — SELF-RELIANCE
Reading edition
Alexandrian stanza. The Alexandrian line consists of twelve syllables (iambic hexameter). Neither the acrostic nor the Alexandrine has the property assigned to it here. A palindrame reads the same forward as backward, as:
"Madam, I'm Adam"; "Signa te signa; temere me tangis et angis";
or the inscription on the church of St. Sophia, Constantinople:
Νίψον ἀνοήματα μὴ μόναν ὄψιν