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Medieval rhetoric and poetic to 1400

Note 8 — Chapter IV · POETIC, OLD AND NEW (FIFTH TO SEVENTH CENTURIES)

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In this poem or recurs at the same place in 11, 13, 15, 17, 18, 19; 22 rimes with 24 on -entis. The rime of adjective with noun is frequent of course; but Boethius marks it by putting one at the cæsura, the other at the end. His most frequent rimes of this sort are on -as. For the recurrence of -os, -us, with neighboring -o see III. ii. 32-35.

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