Note 17 — Chapter IV · POETIC, OLD AND NEW (FIFTH TO SEVENTH CENTURIES)

Fifth century; works in CSE and in PL.

Bede praises Sedulius for internal rime in hexameters. “Optima autem versus dactylici ac pulcherrima compositio est cum primis pænultima ac mediis respondent extrema, qua Sedulius frequenter uti consuevit, ut

et

Non tamen hoc continuatim agendum, verum post aliquot interpositos versus.” De arte metrica, Keil VII. 244.