distich

Many of the moralizing two-line epigrams are not original to Dixon but find their genesis in the Distichs of Cato (Disticha Catonis), which were composed (or compiled) in Latin probably in the third or fourth century AD and quickly became a staple of the European educational curriculum throughout late antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and after.

(35) Translations of these maxims are by Wayland Jonson Chase in The Distichs of Cato: A Famous Medieval Textbook (U.

Paradoxist Distichs are easy to read and consume less time of the reader.

Further structural options include a distribution of lines in quatrains and tercets with two turns for each character (4x+4y+ 3x+3y); in distichs and tercets with three turns (2x+2y+2x+2y+3x+3y); a line for each verse with seven turns; and finally one in which each verse contains a full dialogic unit, multiplying the turns to fourteen.

By contrast, inAmores 1.1 the narrative is limited to lines 1 (arma) to 26 (Amor), as the last two distichs comprise a resolution and an invocation.

Published in his Miscellaneous Poems (1681) are the Latin elegiac distichs addressed "To a Gentleman that only upon the sight of the Author's writing, had given a Character of his Person and Judgment of his Fortune" (how far this is Marvell's own title remains uncertain).

Ivanov therefore did so, addressing him in Latin distichs. Ivanov was delighted that there was interest in his poetry at a time when he must have feared that it had been forgotten, and that it looked as if it might even remain unpublished: it was anathema in the USSR, and after the Allied victory, the inter-war Russian emigration had lost much of its cultural identity.

Despite the affordable and therefore potentially 'popular' form of these broadsides, such texts actually make little effort to accommodate a socially diverse ('popular') audience: they assume and expect a certain degree of education, albeit a level of learning that smacks of the schoolroom, with its emphasis on grammatical competence and knowledge of textbook staples like Terence, or Cato's Distichs. When Churchyard makes his final defence, therefore, justifying the contentious clause 'when rex doth reign (And) rule the rost' by pointing out that '(And)' is 'a coniuction copulatiue', he argues Camell's declaration that the king already reigns betrays his misunderstanding of the grammar, attributing this oversight to the failure of Camell's schoolmaster (Playne and fynall confutacion, sig.

The section on the poetic texts identifies the following as the three principal characteristics of the poetic language: use of both the yaqtul and the qatala forms of the verb as perfectives; pervasive use of semantic and syntactic parallelism in distichs (or bicola) and occasionally longer combinations of stichs/cola (several examples of which are analysed); and differences in vocabulary, particularly the occurrence of rare words in collocation with more common synonyms in parallel stichs/cola.

With the discovery of the Milan Papyrus, however, we now have an additional H2 poems, of which about 95 are mostly intact, and all are in elegaic distichs.