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Definition of Monometers
1. monometer [n] - See also: monometer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monometers
Literary usage of Monometers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Verse of Greek Comedy by John Williams White (1912)
"Thus also Th. 39-62 has 10 monometers (45", 45b, 48a, 48b, 50s, 50b, 51a, 51b,
57", 57b); Pax 82-101 has one monometer (91), recorded as the tenth colon in ..."
2. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus: With a Metrical Translation and Notes Critical by Aeschylus, Benjamin Hall Kennedy (1882)
"... it must be kept in mind that, on account of their peculiar and easy
rhythm (consisting, in the main, of a series of monometers, chiefly in pairs, ..."
3. Primitive & Mediaeval Japanese Texts by Frederick Victor Dickins (1906)
"... waka (Japanese verse) of only five lines containing thirty-one syllables, and
opens with two monometers separated by a dimeter, to end with a couplet of ..."
4. Scholia Aristophanica: Being Such Comments Adscript to the Text of by William Gunion Rutherford (1896)
"... the one consisting of thirty-five metres, nineteen lines, three being monometers,
the second, eleventh and sixteenth, the other consisting of forty-six ..."
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