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Some meter people call this the paeonic foot, after Aristotle.
THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009
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Some meter people call this the paeonic foot, after Aristotle.
THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009
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But the poets have had their way, and written what certainly try to be paeonic feet.
The Principles of English Versification Paull Franklin Baum
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(Falling paeonic rhythm, sprung and outriding.) Two contemporary autographs in A. Text and dedication from corrected B, dated St. Beunos, May 30, 1877.
Notes 1918
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(Falling paeonic rhythm, sprung and outriding.) Autograph in A. Text from corrected B which dates St. Beunos, 1877.
Notes 1918
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For even the wine was mixed with water according to musical ratios; for instance, the paeonic or 3 to 2, [ '' '-] = [8 8 8 4]; the iambic or 2 to 1, [-'] = [4 8]; dactylic or 2 to 2,
Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University Edward MacDowell 1884
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In the first part of the sentence he appears to be speaking of paeonic rhythms which are in the ratio of 3/2; in the second part, of dactylic and anapaestic rhythms, which are in the ratio of 1/1; in the last clause, of iambic and trochaic rhythms, which are in the ratio of
The Republic 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855
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