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Poem of the Day: The Metres of Boethius: Metre 31

  1. hwæt þu meaht ongitan || gif his þe geman lyst
  2. þætte mislice || manega wuhta
  3. geond eorþan faraþ || ungelice
  4. habbaþ blioh and fær || bu ungelice
  5. and mægwlitas || manegra cynna
  6. cuþ and uncuþ || creopaþ and snicaþ
  7. eall lichoma || eorþan getenge
  8. nabbaþ hi æt fiþrum fultum || ne magon hi mid fotum gangan
  9. eorþan brucan || swa him eaden wæs
  10. sume fotum twam || foldan peþþaþ
  11. ...

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Word Form of the Day: asylo

asylum noun neut abl sg us_i

asylum noun neut dat sg us_i

asylum noun neut abl sg us_i

asylum noun neut dat sg us_i

Number of occurrences in corpus: 1

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Metre of the Day

Riddles 66 1a

Bliss
Scansion: xxSx
Type: a1b
Sievers
Scansion: xx / x
Type: A3

Syntax: ivA
Light Verse

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Other places with this scansion (sievers)

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