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... Greek , follows on the heels of Cavafy in bridging the older , literary Greek ( katharevousa ) and modern , spoken Greek ( demotic ) ; his line has its roots in dekapentasyllavos , a fifteen - syllable line with a strong caesura and two ...
... Greek , follows on the heels of Cavafy in bridging the older , literary Greek ( katharevousa ) and modern , spoken Greek ( demotic ) ; his line has its roots in dekapentasyllavos , a fifteen - syllable line with a strong caesura and two ...
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... Greek ... the style I had been groping toward , or perhaps merely hungering for , when I ceased to write poetry a ... Greek normally has more syllables than English . I have never been able to see any way of rendering a Greek stanza in ...
... Greek ... the style I had been groping toward , or perhaps merely hungering for , when I ceased to write poetry a ... Greek normally has more syllables than English . I have never been able to see any way of rendering a Greek stanza in ...
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... Greek Alpha which came from the Phoenician drawing of the bull's head ? Our B from the Greek Beta , which is a Phoenician pictograph for the Beth , or house ; our D from the Greek Delta from the Phoenician Daleth , or door ? Are English ...
... Greek Alpha which came from the Phoenician drawing of the bull's head ? Our B from the Greek Beta , which is a Phoenician pictograph for the Beth , or house ; our D from the Greek Delta from the Phoenician Daleth , or door ? Are English ...
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