Stephen Blackwood
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780198718314
- eISBN:
- 9780191787669
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198718314.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Early Christian Studies, Religion and Literature
This chapter looks at the four metres that occur twice each in the Consolation—elegiac couplets, limping iambic trimeter, anapaestic dimeter catalectic, and sapphic hendecasyllable—as well as the ...
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This chapter looks at the four metres that occur twice each in the Consolation—elegiac couplets, limping iambic trimeter, anapaestic dimeter catalectic, and sapphic hendecasyllable—as well as the hexameter, 3, IX, around which these pairs seem to occur. It is argued that each repetition of a metre intentionally recalls the earlier instance of the same sound in order to administer a medicine matched precisely to a particular wound.Less
This chapter looks at the four metres that occur twice each in the Consolation—elegiac couplets, limping iambic trimeter, anapaestic dimeter catalectic, and sapphic hendecasyllable—as well as the hexameter, 3, IX, around which these pairs seem to occur. It is argued that each repetition of a metre intentionally recalls the earlier instance of the same sound in order to administer a medicine matched precisely to a particular wound.
