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Nov 30, 2009
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le'onine verse'




a form of verse, based upon an earlier Latin form, with a rhyme scheme that requires the last word in a line to rhyme with the word just before a caesura or with a word near the middle of the line.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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