Saturday, February 25, 2017

Methodological Monostich





Thére the mátter must rést,     pénding more ádequate dáta.




[The above is a dactylic hexameter -- the heroic line -- here found nestling in scholarly prose.
Source: David Lightfoot, Principles of Diachronic Syntax (1879), p. 213]


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