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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Does "in the original metres" mean "in the original format/rythme"?
Context:
FAUST
IT IS TWENTY YEARS since I first determined to attempt the
translation of Faust, in the original metres. At that time, al-
though more than a score of English translations of the First
Part, and three or four of the Second Part, were in existence,
the experiment had not yet been made. The prose version of
FAUST
IT IS TWENTY YEARS since I first determined to attempt the
translation of Faust, in the original metres. At that time, al-
though more than a score of English translations of the First
Part, and three or four of the Second Part, were in existence,
the experiment had not yet been made. The prose version of
Top answer
Right, in the original rhythmical pattern.
- Right, in the original rhythmical pattern.
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