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Poem of the Day:
BYRHTFERTH.Bede.Vers
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Hos claros uersus uenerabilis edidit auctor
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Beda sacer, multum nitido sermone coruscans.
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Edidit hos famulus gnaro meditamine uersus
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Perspicuos summi Beda sacer Domini.
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Hanc sententiolam uenerabilis edidit auctor
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Beda sacer, multum nitido sermone choruscans,
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Zodiaci ratione super cicli manifesta
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Quatinus hunc quisque scrutans cognoscere possit.
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Word Form of the Day: widre
Number of occurrences in corpus: 2
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Genesis A 1350b:
sigan læte / wællregn ufan || widre eorþan / feowertig daga || fæ
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Beowulf 763a:
mæra || ðær he meahte swa / widre gewindan || ond on weg ðanon
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Metre of the Day
The Phoenix 1a
- Bliss
- Scansion: xxxxSx
- Type: a1d
- Sievers
- Scansion: xxxx / x
- Type: A3
- Russom
- Scansion: xx/Sx
Syntax: Vs
Light Verse
Places with this scansion (bliss)
Other places with this scansion (sievers)
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