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Quoted or "inset" verses are a familiar feature of longer historical texts in the Old Irish and Middle Irish traditions as well. The role of such verse quotations within the prose narrative varies; they may be mined as historical source-material, cited as factual corroboration of an event or recited
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the two forms are represented in more equal measure. A distinction is sometimes drawn between texts in which verse is the dominant form and those in which prose dominates; there the terms
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of Hugh of Bologna, in the early 12th century. Sources differ on the date, one suggesting around 1119, another about 1130. Hugh divided metrical composition into three kinds:
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may encompass at one extreme a prose story with occasional verse interspersed, and at the other, verse with occasional prose explanations, in true
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Works such as historical chronicles and annals, which quote poetry previously composed by other authors, are not generally regarded as "true"
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have recently made more extensive attempts at cataloging and systematically understanding the prosimetric aspects in that literary corpus.
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Hanson, Kristin, and Paul Kiparsky. "The Nature of Verse and Its Consequences for the Mixed Form". In Harris & Reichl, p. 36.
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Boèce ou la chaîne des savoirs: actes du Colloque international de la Fondation Singer-Polignac, Paris, 8–12 juin 1999
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Mac Cana, Proinsias. "Prosimetrum in Insular Celtic Literature." In Harris & Reichl, pp. 110–111.
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Ziolkowski, Jan. "The Prosimetrum in the Classical Tradition," in Harris & Reichl, p. 48.
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Ricklin, Thomas. "Femmes-philosophie et hommes-animaux: essai d'une lecture satirique de la
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The Maqāmah as Prosimetrum: A Comparative Investigation of Its Origin, Form and Function
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Prosimetrum: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Narrative in Prose and Verse
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Brogan, T.V.F. "Prosimetrum". In Green et al., pp. 1115–1116.
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Index

Prosimetric
prose
verse
quantitative verse
Íslendingasögur
Satyricon
Petronius
Mahabharata
Maqamat Badi' az-Zaman al-Hamadhani
Consolation of Philosophy
Boethius
One Thousand and One Nights
Sedulius Scottus
The Ring of the Dove
Ibn Hazm
Cosmographia
Bernard Silvestris
De planctu Naturæ
Alain de Lille
Acallam na Senórach
Buile Shuibhne
Pantheon
Godfrey of Viterbo
Gesta Danorum
Saxo Grammaticus
Aucassin et Nicolette
The Secret History of the Mongols
La Vita Nuova
Dante Alighieri
Eyrbyggja saga

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