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THE NEW DIRECTION IN POETRY<br />

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And when she knew her brother's cruel mind, she wailed more loudly than the nightingales<br />

that in the groves make myriad-lament for the Sithonian boy. And from a sturdy<br />

oak she straightway tied her head-scarf <strong>and</strong> therein laid her neck: for her the virgins<br />

of Miletus rent their garments.<br />

Six hexameters, divided into two sections of three, the third <strong>and</strong> sixth hexameter<br />

being a spondaic: the phrase f) 8' OTE 81*1 £>' 6A00T0 (1) is echoed by KCC( £ot KOTOC<br />

CTTU9EA0T0 (4); OccnivcoTspov (2) is metrically equivalent to £VE0I'|KOCTO (5), <strong>and</strong><br />

both -words are followed by similar phrases: a! T* tv\ fir\

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