Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having six linear stripes: as, the six-lined lizard, scuttler, or streakfield, Cnemidophorus sexlineatus.
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Examples
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Eighteen [73] times he uses the well known seven-line ballad strophe and twice [74] the six-lined strophe of the Wanderlied "Innsbruck, ich musz dich lassen," [75] which even as early as the Reformation had come into wide use in hymnody.
Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and his Influence on English Hymnody 1976
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Love_ (1595), the first part of which, a prose treatise, is probably by another hand; the second part, a poem in six-lined stanza, is certainly by
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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It will have been noticed that in the six-lined stanza quoted above,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Spencer's translation, and two six-lined stanzas of Stanley's translation are given.
Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines 1741-1810 Edward Ziegler Davis 1901
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MILTON will be presented in both verse and prose, Mr. MASEFIELD having promised to re-write his epic in six-lined rhymed stanzas, shorn of
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-19 Various 1898
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Number two has five six-lined stanzas, all dimeters, rhymed _aaabab_: and a four-lined finale, rhymed _ab, ab_.
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889
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There are many five-lined and six-lined stanzas, and one -- the longest in the poem -- of nine lines.
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886
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Boyd used a six-lined stanza, a singularly ill chosen medium for rendering the _terza rima_; and his diction was as wordy and vague as
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886
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The first we meet with is the six-lined taraguina, belonging to the family of teguexins, which are remarkable for the many-sided shields which cover their heads, and the double collar on the throat.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Its 16 six-lined stanzas make it a little too long for Poem of the week although, as a poem, it earns every line so I've chosen the lesser-known ballad, "A Northern Suburb".
The Guardian World News Carol Rumens 2011
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