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Pearl Poet The "Pearl Poet", or the "Gawain Poet", is the name given to the author of "Pearl", an alliterative poem written in 14th-century Middle English. Its author appears also to have written the poems "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", "Patience", and "Cleanness"; some scholars suggest the author may also have composed "Saint Erkenwald". Save for the last (found in BL-MS "Harley 2250"), all these works are known from a single surviving manuscript, the British Library holding "Cotton Nero A.x". This body of work includes some of the most well-regarded poetry written in Middle English.
Lekythion A lekythion or lecythion, in classical Greek and Latin poetry, is a metric pattern ("colon") defined by a sequence of seven alternating long and short syllables at the end of a verse (—∨—⊻—∨—). In classical grammatical terminology it can be described as a trochaic dimeter catalectic, i.e. a combination of two groups of two trochees each (—∨—⊻), with the second of these groups lacking its final syllable; or as a trochaic hepthemimer, i.e. a trochaic sequence of seven half-feet. A lekythion can appear in several different metric contexts in different types of poetry, either alone as a verse or as the second of two "cola" following a caesura. A frequent type of occurrence in Greek drama is in lines of iambic trimeter, the most frequent metre used in spoken dialogue, i.e. lines of the type ⊻—∨—|⊻—∨—|⊻—∨—. These lines may have a metric caesura after the first five syllables, with the remaining line thus resulting in a lekythion group.