Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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
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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"
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It will have been noticed that in the six-lined stanza quoted above,
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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There are many five-lined and six-lined stanzas, and one -- the longest in the poem -- of nine lines.
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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
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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".
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