minaciter, imminet arbiter, ille supremus.Imminet imminet, ut mala terminet, æqua coronet,Recta remuneret, anxia liberet, æthera donet. (These current days are the worst of times: let us keep watch.Behold the menacing arrival of the Supreme Judge.He is coming, He is coming to end evil, crown the just,reward the right, set the worried free and grant eternal life.) As this example of tripartiti dactylici caudati (dactylic hexameter rhyming couplets divided into three) shows, the internal rhymes of leonine verse may be based on tripartition of the line (as opposed to a caesura in the center of the verse) and do not necessarily involve the end of the line at all. In 1893, the American composer Horatio Parker set the Hora novissima to music in his cantata of the same name. The epitaph of Count Alan Rufus, dated by Richard Sharpe and others to 1093, is described by André Wilmart as being in Leonine hexameter: Stella nuit regni : comitis caro marcet Alani : Anglia turbatur : satraparum flos cineratur : Iam Brito flos regum, modo marcor in ordine rerum Praecepto legum, nitet ortus sanguine regum. Dux uiguit summus, rutilans a rege secundus. Hunc cernens plora : ‘requies sibi sit, Deus’ ora. Vixit nobilium : praefulgens stirpe Brittonum. English A leonine rhyme is used by Edward Lear in his humorous poem "The Owl and the Pussy Cat": They took some honey, and plenty of money References Rhyme Medieval Latin poetry Genres of poetry Types of verses