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leash
Hunting three of the same kind of animal, usually hounds, foxes, or hares


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In his translation of this sonnet, which is attached to Klimoff's essay, Lowry Nelson collapses the last tercet into a Spenserian couplet, avoiding repetition of the word Troy.
The poems--ranging from light verse ("Kitchen crickets make a din, / sending taunts to chilly kin, / 'You're outside, but we got in'") to a Shakespearean sonnet (number twelve) and an accompanying parody--are arranged by form, with tercet, haiku, acrostic poem, limerick, roundel, double dactyl, epitaph, and aubade among the twenty-nine included.
In the passage to which this tercet alludes, Virgil compares the activity of busy bees with the labor of the cyclops: "Non aliter, si parva licet componere magnis" (Not otherwise, if it is allowed to compare small things with great) (Georgics 4.
 
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