What does mismetre mean?
Mismetre means Alternative form of mismeter..
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Alternative form of mismeter..
They neither maul nor mismetre his rhyme;
For this he quotes and mismetres a fragment Kallimachos.
From the evidence of other witnesses to alliterative texts copied by Thornton (as, for instance, by comparing the four dissimilar manuscripts of Awntyrs or the two each of Truelove and The Palement of Thre Ages) it can be seen that, although Thornton is a careful scribe and almost never mismetres a line into duple, alternating rhythms, he shows an eagerness to smooth out and add explanatory pleonasms by inserting fillers such as ful, frequently supplying full forms where an aphetic one was metrical, and altering the metrical pattern of the b-verses to make triple-beat 'anapaestic' lines.
Use mismetre when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Mismetre means Alternative form of mismeter..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
They neither maul nor mismetre his rhyme;
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