remanies

Updated: April 30, 2025

The form of verse is not ballad-like, but a series of laisses of decasyllabic lines, each laisse presenting one assonance, not rhyme. As time went on, rhyme and Alexandrine lines were introduced, and the old epics were expanded, altered, condensed, remanies, with progressive changes in taste, metre, language, manners, and ways of life.

Andrew Lang - Homer and His Age