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"word": "mesostic"
},
{
"word": "mesostich"
},
{
"word": "telestic"
},
{
"word": "telestich"
}
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{
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{
"ref": "Jonathan Conant: Staying Roman: Conquest and Identity in Africa and the Mediterranean, 439–700. Cambridge, 2012, Seite 147.",
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},
{
"ref": "William Stone Booth: Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon. 1909, Seite 71.",
"text": "„It is a verse written by some one in the olden time, and to speak technically it is at once acrostic, mesostic, and telestic[.]“"
}
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"feminine"
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"ref": "William Stone Booth: Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon. 1909, Seite 71.",
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}
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"sense": "akrostichisch",
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}
],
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{
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{
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"ref": "Jonathan Conant: Staying Roman: Conquest and Identity in Africa and the Mediterranean, 439–700. Cambridge, 2012, Seite 147.",
"text": "„The pieces are a fireworks display of Felix's poetic prowess, especially the fifth epigram, which includes an acrostic, a mesostic, and a telestic, which, taken together, read: 'Thrasamund, brightening, renewes all vota' (Thrasamundus / cunta innovat / vota serenans).“"
},
{
"ref": "William Stone Booth: Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon. 1909, Seite 71.",
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}
],
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}
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"sense": "Akrostichon, Parastichon",
"sense_index": "1",
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{
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"masculine"
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"feminine"
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}
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"ref": "William Stone Booth: Some acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon. 1909, Seite 71.",
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"sense": "akrostichisch",
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"word": "akrostichisch"
}
],
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}
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