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Poem of the Day: N.Swithun.Inscr

  1. Hanc portam presens cernis quicumque uiator
  2. deuotas effunde preces ad celsitonantem
  3. pro Christi famulo Swiðun, antistite quondam,
  4. per cuius summam cum sollicitudine curam
  5. est huius pontis constructa operatio pulchra
  6. ad Christi laudem, Wentane urbisque decorem,
  7. sol octingentos cum rite reuolueret annos
  8. quinquaginta nouem replicaret et insuper annos,
  9. incarnata fuit postquam miseratio Christi;
  10. tunc erat et uertens indictio septima cursum.
  11. ...

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Word Form of the Day: seth

Number of occurrences in corpus: 3

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Metre of the Day

The Death of Edward 1a

Bliss
Scansion: xSx|S
Type: 3B1a
Sievers
Scansion: x / | x /
Type: B1

Syntax: NN

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Other places with this scansion (sievers)

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