Volume II contains meticulously detailed commentaries on all the components of the Liber ymnorum, including the dedication and
distich. Each entry for the sequences includes the text and translation for the Alleluia proper to the feast, a translation of the texts, with notes, and copious commentary on how the versus are presented in the manuscripts, the notation, and relevant bibliography.
This contrasts, moreover, with the exceptionally long and cluttered first line of the
distich: "The old man, the child, the goose feathers at the edge of the forest." "I see [...] And hear," Thomas writes.
(55) At this time, Felsenstein notes, 'the notorious
distich "No Jews!
As a Paradoxist
Distich is said to be a two-line poem, one content-word in each line is required at the least to form a
distich.
The deinde that introduces the final
distich leads us to believe that this image of Apollo between his mother and sister stands beyond the ivory doors, inside the temple.
As Wyke (2002, 123) notes about this comic incongruity, "In the pentameter verses pes signals ambiguously both human and metrical feet." Just as the disproportionate feet the Ovidian caricature is granted symbolize the unevenness of feet in the elegiac
distich due to the interchange between dactyls and spondees, so too the pressure Marathus exercises upon his feet to adjust their size may refer metaphorically to the restrictions imposed by the meter and the need for short syllables--especially in the second half of the pentameter verses, as illustrated by the use of pedes in line 14.
E "Elegiac
Distich," "Elegiac Stanza," "Elegy" in Preminger, 321-25.
famous
distich, he described himself this way: My knowledge reached to the
In the name Macedonia is the remembrance of the Balkans: from pop music to literature, from that memorable
distich of Dado Topic about the land where the sun always shines to the first page of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, where Melquiades demonstrates "the eighth wonder of the learned alchemists of Macedonia."
(4) Frequent use of
distich (old/young; sword/poetry) and hyperbole (hyakudai, literally, a hundred generations, for centuries, eternity) is also standard Sino-Japanese rhetoric although, ironically, superlatives are regarded here as women's predilection.