Leonine verse

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Leonine verse

Leonine verse is a type of versification based on internal rhyme

Internal rhyme

In poetry, internal rhyme, or middle rhyme, is rhyme which occurs in a single line of Verse .8D23:06, 9 March 2009 23:06, 9 March 2009 23:06, 9 March 2009 ~O:...
, and commonly used in Latin verse of the European Middle Ages. The invention of such conscious rhymes, foreign to Classical Latin poetry, is traditionally attributed to a probably apocryphal monk Leonius

Leonius

Leonius may refer to:*Leoninus , the first known significant composer of polyphonic organum;*the author of a versified Historia Sacra found in a manuscript of the Biblioth?que Nationale in Paris ;...
, who is supposed to be the author of a history of the Old Testament (Historia Sacra) preserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale

Bibliothèque nationale de France

The Biblioth?que nationale de France is the National library of France, located in Paris. It is intended to be the repository of all that is published in France....
of Paris

Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
. This "history" is composed in Latin verses, all of which rhyme in the center.

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Leonine verse is a type of versification based on internal rhyme

Internal rhyme

Leonius

Bibliothèque nationale de France

The Biblioth?que nationale de France is the National library of France, located in Paris. It is intended to be the repository of all that is published in France....
of Paris

Paris

Leoninus

Leoninus may refer to:* L?onin* Elbertus Leoninus...
, a Benedictine

Benedictine

Benedictine refers to the spirituality and consecrated life in accordance with the Rule of St Benedict, written by Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century for the cenobitic communities he founded in central Italy....
musician of the twelfth century, in which case he would not have been the original inventor of the form.

Another very famous poem in Leonine rhyme is the De Contemptu Mundi of Bernard of Cluny

Bernard of Cluny

Bernard of Cluny was a Benedictine monk of the first half of the twelfth century, poet, satirist, and hymn-writer, author of the famous verses On Contempt for the World....
, whose first book begins:

Hora novissima, tempora pessima sunt — vigilemus.
Ecce minaciter imminet arbiter ille supremus.
Imminet imminet ut mala terminet, æqua coronet,
Recta remuneret, anxia liberet, æthera donet.

As this example of tripartiti dactylici caudati (dactylic hexameter

Dactylic hexameter

Dactylic hexameter is a form of meter in poetry or a rhythmic scheme. It is traditionally associated with the quantitative meter of classical epic poetry in both Greek language and Latin, and was consequently considered to be the Grand Style of classical poetry....
rhyming couplet

Couplet

A couplet is a pair of Hairs of bags . It usually consists of two lines that rhyme and have the same meter. Some cultures have decorative traditions associated with them....
s divided into three) shows, the internal rhymes of leonine verse may be based on tripartition of the line (as opposed to a caesura

Caesura

In Meter , caesura is a term to denote an audible pause that breaks up a line of Poetry. In most cases, caesura is indicated by punctuation marks which cause a pause in speech: a comma, a semicolon, a full stop, a dash, etc....
in the center of the verse) and do not necessarily involve the end of the line at all.