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  • You will observe that the first hemistitch in Martelli always consists of seven syllables, while in French it only has six.

    The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt 1827

  • You will observe that the first hemistitch in Martelli always consists of seven syllables, while in French it only has six.

    The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761

  • You will observe that the first hemistitch in Martelli always consists of seven syllables, while in French it only has six.

    Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 15: with Voltaire Giacomo Casanova 1761

  • At the end of the third hemistitch Lane’s Shaykh very properly reads “baghtatan” (suddenly) for

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • As for Homer’s repetitions, we may divide them into three sorts: of whole narrations and speeches, of single sentences, and of one verse or hemistitch.

    The Iliad of Homer 2003

  • As for Homer’s repetitions, we may divide them into three sorts: of whole narrations and speeches, of single sentences, and of one verse or hemistitch.

    The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1716

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