pimeval

Updated: May 19, 2025

Now if you try to write a hexameter in English on the Greek principle, you get something without the least likeness either to a Greek hexameter or to music; because the language is one of stresses, not, primarily, of tones. "This is the forest pimeval; the murmuring pines and the hemlocks."

Kenneth Morris - The Crest-Wave of Evolution : A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19