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Yahoo's term extraction API doesn't seem to know about entities like ä.

posted at: 22:06 | path: /D | permanent link to this entry

Denn ist Einmal der Kopf voran, so folget der Schweif auch

is a line from Die Vortrefflichen (The Virtuosi) by Hölderlin, which is in hexameters. All five of that set of poems (Guter Rat, Advocatus Diaboli, Die Vortrefflichen, Die beschreibende Poesie and Falsche Popularität) are.

So can you place the caesura in that line? I can't, unless I make Kopf voran a dactyl, and it is nothing of the sort, so the caesura ends up in the middle of voran. He must be using the form to reinforce his point.

posted at: 21:49 | path: /D/bread_and_wine | permanent link to this entry