Hubert:
That's an interesting idea. But the immediate question is: what meter? How can one judge the meter if, without unambiguous parsing, syllables are not clear?
Myself, I always think of the first line of the spell as of what I believe is iambus (?):
Anchi-ton o-la da-bas ...
That's extremely intersting (somehow I missed the post or the point) - irrespectively of meter, I think.
That's an interesting idea. But the immediate question is: what meter? How can one judge the meter if, without unambiguous parsing, syllables are not clear?
Myself, I always think of the first line of the spell as of what I believe is iambus (?):
Anchi-ton o-la da-bas ...
Quote:A propos, Nick Pelling recently posted something about the 'Cisiojanus' mnemonic, which was new to me:
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which is a mixture of identifiable Latin words and fragments of others joined together in...a Latin hexameter.
That's extremely intersting (somehow I missed the post or the point) - irrespectively of meter, I think.