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The latter clause, however, relieves the dilemma in which I should otherwise find myself involved; for I was far from attempting the performance of what the witty Dean Swift once coined a sexasyllabic word for, viz.: ‘sermonification.’
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The rhyme and especially the rhythm are entirely different from those of the twelve-syllable Spanish verse; the rhythm is unisonous with the kumintang, a purely Tagalog musical air which is generally used as accompaniment to these dodecasyllabic verses and has a sexasyllabic movement, similar to the monorhythmic romancerillo of six syllables.
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A syntactical tightness combined with themes Valerian (and Cocteaue sque) make feasible the following comparison between Genet's sexasyllabic lines and a quatrain from Valéry's A l'aurore[…]
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That he was also experimental-minded is suggested by the fact that he made rather extensive use of the sexasyllabic quatrain form, something which few poets before him seem to have done.
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