leonine verse

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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

The Doctrinale of Alexander, which is in leonine verse, circulated more or less in MS. during his life, and was one of the earliest books committed to the press, as a fragment on vellum with the types of Laurence Coster of Haarlem establishes.

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They are written in leonine verse.

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

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I have been surprised, from the facility with which the author of "Drunken Barnaby" seems to pour out his Leonine verse, that no other productions of a similar character are known to have issued from his pen.

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The fellowship between the arts of healing and cooking is brought to our recollection by a leonine verse at the end of one of the shorter separate collections above described:— "Explicit de Coquina Quae est optima Medicina."

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