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1 T-III|          lines,~it’s the elegiac metre, the long journey:~If I’
2  T-IV|          words that were free of metre.~But verse came, of itself,
3 ExIII| judgement’s uncertain as to what metre to use now:~since a second
4  ExIV|        name.~Yet letters without metre have never ceased ~to pass
5  ExIV|        joy in weaving words into metre,~whether it’s the fact I’
6  IBIS|          to go to battle in this metre:~and as the spear of a soldier,
7  IBIS|          your true name,~in that metre in which bitter wars should
8   Ind|       and Alcaeus) in matter and metre.~Book TIV.X:41-92 A member