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leonine verse

noun

  1. a form of verse, based upon an earlier Latin form, with a rhyme scheme that requires the last word in a line to rhyme with the word just before a caesura or with a word near the middle of the line.


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Example Sentences

Yet it is fair to remember that some of the varieties of Leonine verse lacked neither force nor elegance.

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