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Poetic term of the day — April 27, 2008

Cranes

LEONINE VERSE: Named for a 12th century poet, Leonius, it consists of hexameters or of hexameters and pentameters in which the final syllable rhymes with one preceding the caesura, in the middle of the line.

At left: Stephen Crane

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